January 16th

Saint Marcellus I

Saint · Common of Pope · Rome, Italy · d. c. 309

At Rome in the cemetery of Priscilla on the Via Salaria Nova, the burial of Saint Marcellus I, pope, who, as Saint Damasus relates, was a truthful shepherd. Grievously harassed by the lapsed, who spurned the penance he had appointed, and shamefully denounced to the tyrant, he was driven from his homeland and died in exile.

Latin Original

Rome in coemetério Priscíllae via Salária Nova, deposítio sancti Marcélli Primi, papae, qui, ut sanctus Dámasus refert, verídicus pa  stor, a lapsis dire vexátus paeniténtiam ab ipso statüátam spernéntibus et tyránno flagitióse delátus, e pátria pulsus exsul óbiit.