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Martyrology

Martyrology meaning

The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly | The study of martyrs and martyrdom; the names and stories of martyrs, particularly | A liturgical calendar of days for the commemoration of formally recognized saints, usually including some biographical notes.

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He is listed in the Roman Martyrology Roman Martyrology—a work which includes all Saints and Blesseds recognised by the Roman Catholic Church as Beatus Ioannes Faesulanus, cognomento Angelicus—"Blessed Giovanni of Fiesole, known as 'the Angelic' ".

As well as the Roman Martyrology, the Roman Missal identified the Saint Felix of 29 July with the antipope.

He also created a listing of saints, the Martyrology.

On a day to which no obligatory celebration is assigned, the Mass may be of any saint mentioned in the Roman Martyrology for that day.

One source claims that "there are over 10,000 named saints and beatified people from history, the Roman Martyrology and Orthodox sources, but no definitive head count".

Saint Cletus is still listed in the Roman Martyrology under the 26 April date; but Saint Marcellinus is no longer mentioned in that professedly incomplete list of recognized saints.

The complete pre-Pius X Roman Breviary was translated into English (by the Marquess of Bute in 1879; new ed. with a trans, of the Martyrology, 1908), French and German.

The fragments echo the Martyrology, and diverge from it.

The Roman Martyrology does not list Linus as a martyr.

The Roman Martyrology lists them as Eventius, Alexander and Theodulus, the order in which their names are given in historical documents.