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Romanus, who is venerated as Bishop of Auxerre on 8 October, is probably identical with this Abbot Romanus whose relics were subsequently translated to Auxerre. Benedict at Subiaco, and is said to have afterwards gone to Gaul and to have founded a small monastery at Dryes-Fontrouge, where he died about 550 and was venerated as a saint. Benedict when the latter withdrew into a solitary place and regularly brought Benedict bread to support life ( St. Romanus, monk in a monastery near Subiaco, Italy, at the beginning of the sixth century. Merov., I, 663), and an anonymous 'Vita Sanctorum Romani, Lupicini, Eugendi'.

Two lives of him are in existence: one by Gregory of Tours in the 'Liber vitae patrum' (Mon. Hilary of Arles in 444, and with Lupicinus he directed these monasteries until his death. Romanus was buried, and Romainmôtier ( Romanum monasterium) in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Eugendus, placed themselves under the direction of the two holy brothers who founded several monasteries: Condat (now Saint-Claude), Lauconne (later Saint-Lupicin, as Lupicinus was buried there), La Balme (later Saint-Romain-de-Roche), where St. A large number of scholars, among whom was St. When thirty-five years old he went into the lonely region of Condat to live as a hermit, where after a while his younger brother Lupicinus followed him. The feast of the saint is observed on 24 November. Romanus was published in the 'Analecta Bollandiana', V (1866), 178 sqq. Martin of Tours made ready the grave of the dead Romanus. Gregory of Tours gives an account of him ('De gloria confessorum', c. (4) A holy priest named Romanus laboured in the district of Blaye, in the present French department of the Gironde, at the end of the fourth century. No further particulars are known of any of them. (3) The 'Martyrologium Hieronymianum' mentions martyrs of this name at several dates, chiefly in large companies of Christians who suffered martyrdom. Prudentius has introduced legendary features into his account, and his connection of the martyrdom of Barulas with that of Romanus is probably arbitrary. On this account several historians, among them Baronius, consider that there were two martyrs named Romanus at Antioch, though more likely there was but the one whom Eusebius mentions. Prudentius ('Peristephanon', X in 'P.L.', LX, 444 sqq.) relates other details and gives Romanus a companion in martyrdom, a Christian by name Barulas. Eusebius speaks of his martyrdom in 'De martyribus Palestin.', c. Tortured in various ways in prison he was finally strangled. At the emperor's command the tongue of the courageous confessor was cut out. He was taken prisoner, was condemned to death by fire, and was bound to the stake however, as the Emperor Galerius was then in Antioch, Romanus was brought before him. Upon the proclamation of Diocletian's edict he strengthened the Christians of Antioch and openly exhorted the weaker brethren, who were willing to offer heathen sacrifices, not to waver in the Faith. (2) In 303 or 304, at the beginning of the Diocletian persecution, a deacon called Romanus of Caesarea in Palestine suffered martyrdom at Antioch. Duchfourcq, Les Gesta Martyrum romains', I, 201).

Lawrence, the ostiary Romanus is transformed into a soldier, and an account in accordance with this statement was inserted in the historical martyrologies and in the present Roman Martyrology, which latter places his feast on 9 August (cf. Romanus is explicitly mentioned in the Itineraries of the seventh century ( De Rossi, 'Roma sotterranea', I, 178-9). Lawrence Romanus was buried in the Catacomb of the Cyriaca on the Via Tiburtina. There is no reason to doubt that this mention rests upon a genuine ancient tradition. Duchesne, I, 155) with three other ecclesiastics as companions in the martyrdom of St. (1) A Roman martyr Romanus is mentioned in the 'Liber Pontificalis' (ed. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99.

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