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Alexander is cited as having seen a vision of the infant Jesus.

In some editions of the Roman Missal the Saint Alexander commemorated on 3 May is identified with Pope Alexander I.

This identification is not found in the Tridentine Missal promulgated by Pope Pius V in 1570.

Since nothing is known of the Saints Alexander, Eventius and Theodulus of 3 May other than their names and the facts that they were martyred and were buried at the seventh milestone of the Via Nomentana on that day, the one whose name coincided with that of a pope was identified with the Pope.

The identification of the martyr Alexander with the Pope was removed from the Roman Calendar by Pope John XXIII in 1960.