He was subsequently canonized and is commemorated as a saint in the Roman calendar and martyrology on 13 February.

The martyrology Acts of Pionius, set in the " Decian persecution " of AD 250 – 51, mentions a lapsed Smyrnan Christian who was attending to the sacrifices at the altar of the temple of these Nemeses.

The Vatican has not officially revoked the status of sainthood for the child since he was never officially canonized and was never included in Catholic martyrology.

The legend was picked up as fact by later martyrologies, starting by Bede's martyrology in the 8th century.

Following his death in 449, Hilary's name was introduced into the Roman martyrology.

Foxe was ordained deacon by Nicholas Ridley on 24 June 1550, and his circle of friends, associates, and supporters included John Hooper, William Turner, John Rogers, William Cecil, and most importantly John Bale, who was to become a close friend and " certainly encouraged, very probably guided, Foxe in the composition of his first martyrology.

But when Eulogius of Córdoba recorded the martyrology of the Martyrs of Córdoba during the decade after 850, it was apparent that at least four Christian basilicas remained in the city, including the church of Saint Acisclus that had sheltered the only holdouts in 711, and nine monasteries and convents in the city and its environs ; nevertheless, their existence soon became precarious.

In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII gave permission for Catherine's veneration as a saint and her feast was assigned to 22 March in the Roman martyrology.

An important note, in 1260, as the Tartars invaded Christian Sandomir, a community of Dominicans was praying Matins while a novice read the martyrology for the next day: “ the 49 martyrs of Sandomir ”.

The name Créteil was recorded for the first time as Cristoïlum in the martyrology written by a monk named Usuard in 865.

The martyrology gave a genealogy for Saturnin: the son of Aegeus, King of Achaea, by his wife Cassandra, who, herself, was the daughter of Ptolemy, King of the Ninevites.

In some places the age of the moon was announced daily in the office of Prime at the reading of the martyrology.

According to a martyrology compiled by Ado of Vienne and published in many copies in 858, which was supplemented in the mid-10th century by Gauzbert of Limoges, a certain priest named George accompanied a certain Front, the first Bishop of Périgueux, when they were sent to proselytize in Gaul.

An Irish martyrology of the same period says of the Isle of Aran that the boat commonly used there was made of wickerwork and covered with cowhide.

Bowersock's view of Christian martyrology as being completely unrelated to the Jewish practice, being instead " a practice that grew up in an entirely Roman cultural environment and then was borrowed by Jews.

Of his historical works, the most valuable is one which was intended to be a Catholic response to the Protestant John Foxe's well-known martyrology, Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

He composed his second work, a martyrology in verse that was finished about 848, at the request of Otrich, a priest of Cologne, and with the aid of his friend Florus of Lyon.

The most famous of all is that of Usuard ( c. 875 ), Martyrology of Usuard, on which the Roman martyrology was based.

The third edition, which appeared in 1584, was approved by Gregory XIII, who imposed the Roman martyrology upon the whole Church.

Though four Christian basilicas and numerous Christian monasteries mentioned in Eulogius ' martyrology remained open, the Christian population was gradually becoming converted to Islam in the process driven by taxation and legal discrimination imposed on the Christians, and the marriage laws assuring Muslim offspring from mixed marriages.

He composed tractates and a martyrology to justify the self-immolation of the martyrs, of which a single manuscript, containing his Documentum martyriale, the three books of his Memoriale sanctorum and his Liber apologeticus martyrum, was preserved in Oviedo, in the Christian kingdom of Asturias in the far northwestern coast of Hispania.

He was one of the first historians to use " publick records, original papers, and manuscripts of that time " and included many first hand accounts of this period in the history of the Church of Scotland, producing a martyrology that the church would turn to again at times of suffering.

The literary effort most commonly attributed to Óengus is the Old Irish work known as Félire Óengusso (" Martyrology of Óengus "), which is the earliest metrical martyrology — a register of saints and their feast days — to have been written in the vernacular.

This fact, which escaped the first editor, is of assistance in recognizing the existence of a general martyrology of the Orient, written in Greek at Nicomedia, and which served as a source for the Hieronymian.

Exhibits include a 15th century silver-gilt cross and silver thurible, an 18th century crucifix from Jerusalem, a martyrology ( 1541 ) by Bemardin Gucetic and illuminated Psalters.

Evidence for his story comes from an acta that is part of the " proconsular acts ," a text created by the clerk of the tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church that established the martyrology.

Pope is mentioned by the controversial Taos priest Father Martinez in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, as leader of the Indian revolt which " so added to Spanish martyrology.

There is another type of martyrology in which the name is followed by a short history of the saint.

We may add certain compilations of a factitious character, to which the name of martyrology is given by analogy, e. g. the Martyrologe universel of Chatelain ( 1709 ).

The Syriac martyrology discovered by Wright ( Journal of Sacred Literature, 1866 ) gives the idea of a general martyrology.

The oldest texts which refer to him are an 8th century necrology at Würzburg and the notice by Hrabanus Maurus in his martyrology.

A Passio, now lost, once existed, and appears in summarized form in the ninth-century martyrology of Florus of Lyon.

The Roman martyrology lists only seven who died on days other than February 14: a priest from Viterbo ( November 3 ); a bishop from Raetia who died in about 450 ( January 7 ); a fifth-century priest and hermit ( July 4 ); a Spanish hermit who died in about 715 ( October 25 ); Valentine Berrio Ochoa, martyred in 1861 ( November 24 ); and Valentine Jaunzarás Gómez, martyred in 1936 ( September 18 ).

Japan alone in later days can boast a martyrology at all to compare with that of Corea in the number of the slain, or in the heroism of those who died for Christ.

The chief works on the martyrologies are those of Heribert Rosweyde, who in 1613 published at Antwerp the martyrology of Ado ; of Sollerius, to whom we owe a learned edition of Usuard ; and of Fiorentini, who published in 1688 an annotated edition of the Martyrology of St Jerome.

Although he died on 30 June, his name is recorded in the Roman martyrology on 2 July.

Despite these complaints, Clement is generally not considered a heretic in the Catholic Church, but such concerns about his orthodoxy led to him being removed from the Roman martyrology in 1586, and he is not revered as a saint in contemporary Roman Catholicism.

The martyrology has not survived as a whole, but it has been preserved almost completely in parts.

No less severe were the persecutions in Africa, which seem to have begun in 197 or 198, and included the Christians known in the Roman martyrology as the martyrs of Madaura.

Jeffrey Richards explains Hormisdas ' Persian name as probably in honor of an exiled Persian noble, Hormizd, " celebrated in the Roman martyrology ( 8 August ) but not so honoured in the East.

" The scribes of the Durham cantor's book ( Durham Dean and Chapter library, MS B. IV. 24 ) and the Durham martyrology scribe ", in Anglo-Norman Durham, 1093-1193, eds.

He also undertook a new edition of the Roman martyrology ( 1586 ), in which he removed some entries implausible for historical reasons.

Foxe quickly became associated with John Day the printer and published works of religious controversy while working on a new martyrology that would eventually become the Actes and Monuments.

Towards the end of the decade of the martyrs, Eulogius's martyrology begins to record the closing of Christian monasteries and convents, which to Muslim eyes had proved to be a hotbed of disruptive fanaticism rather than a legitimate response against a slow but systematic elimination of Christianity.

St Peter the Martyr's feast day is 29 April in the Extraordinary Form, with a martyrology mention on his death date of 6 April although his Dominican brothers celebrate it on 4 June.

In the Christian martyrology, seven Christian martyrs were crucified in 297 in Samosata for refusing to perform a pagan rite in celebration of the victory of Maximian over the Persians: Abibus, Hipparchus, James, Lollian, Paragnus, Philotheus, and Romanus.

Saint Expeditus is commemorated in the martyrology on April 18 and on April 19, but the first date seems to be a mistake ( mistakes were very common in martyrologies.