ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 28th of August WELCOME! SAINT HERMES OF ROM E, MARTYR Saint Hermes suffered at Rome. According to Piazza, the Saint was prefect of Rome under the Emperor Trajan (from 98 to 117) and with his wife, his sons and another 1,550 people he was instructed in the Faith by St Pope Alexander (121 to 132) and baptised on Easter Eve. THE MARTYR'S CROWN St Hermes was the first to receive the martyr's crown among the new converts. According to the Roman Martyrology, the judge Aurelianus ordered him to be beheaded. He was buried by his sister Theodora in a churchyard in front of the Porta Salaria, which later bore his name. Pope Hadrian I is said to have built a basilica in his honour in that place. "HEAVENLY DIGNITY ENDURES FOR EVER" In an old Roman ceremonial one reads of him: "I have not lost the prefecture, but changed it; earthly dignity, because it is taken from earth, passes away, but heavenly dignity ...