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Today (31. July) is the feast day of:
Tertullinus (d. 257, supposedly). T. is problematically first recorded
in the legendary Passio of pope St. Stephen I (BHL 7845-47; sixth-
century??), where he is said to have been arrested in the Valerianic
persecution two days after Stephen had ordained him priest, to have
been subject to various tortures and then decapitated, and to have been
laid to rest on this day at his place of execution in the pozzolana
crypts at the second milestone of the Via Latina. Seventh-century
pilgrim itineraries record a memorial basilica dedicated to him on the
same road (precise location not given; the cemetery in this vicinity
now known as the Catacomba di Tertullino, though not fully explored,
appears to be no earlier than the fourth century). T. enters the
martyrologies with Bede (a brief notice, based on the aforementioned
Passio). Ado, who has a much fuller extract from the same Passio,
lists T. under 4. August, which is where Usuard also put him, as did
the RM until its revision of the year 2000. The calendar in a late
thirteenth-century missal from Austria now at Yale (Marston Ms. 213)
shows the continued influence of Stephen's Passio by listing T. on 31.
July, a datum consistent with the online Grotefend's reporting of
listings for T. on this date in calendars of Brixen, Freising,
Regensburg, and Salzburg.
T.'s basilica on the Via Latina was rebuilt by pope St. Adrian I (772-
95). Relics of him are said to have been included among those
translated by pope Paschal I (817-24) to Rome's church of Santa
Prassede. In 1624 a printed edition of the propers of Le Puy-en-Velay
in Auvergne asserted that T.'s relics were at the high altar of its
cathedral of Notre Dame; the early Bollandists were unable to locate
anything to substantiate this claim. Long before this, though, the
monastery of Schlehdorf in Oberbayern claimed to have them.
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