Friday, January 16, 2009

Saint of the Day

On the day of 16 January

At Rome in the cemetery of Priscilla on the Via Salaria Nova, the entombment of Pope Saint Marcellus I, a pastor who loved the truth, as Saint Damasus relates, who, sorely distressed by the lapsed who spurned the penance decreed by him and driven out by an infamous tyrant, died in exile having been banished from his own country.