Felicissimus and Agapitus, Ss.
FELICISSIMUS AND AGAPITUS, SS.
Deacon martyrs, d. Rome, 258. Nothing is known of their life and death except for that material contained in the poem composed in their honor by Pope damasus i. They were deacons of the Roman Church martyred with Pope sixtus ii, during the Valerian persecution, and buried in the cemetery of Praetextatus. gregory iv gave their bones to the Abbot Gozbald of Niederaltaich for his church at Isarhofen.
Feast: Aug. 7.
Bibliography: Acta Sanctorum Aug. 2:124–142. h. leclercq, Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, ed. f. cabrol, h. leclercq and h. i. marrou (Paris 1907–53) 5:1249–59. a. ferrua, ed., Epigrammata Damasiana (Vatican City 1942) 152–156.
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