ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 5th of January WELCOME! SAINT TELESPHORUS, POPE AND MARTYR ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Saint Telesphorus was the seventh Roman bishop in succession from the Apostles, and, according to the testimony of St Irenaeus, suffered a glorious martyrdom. Eusebius places the beginning of his pontificate in the twelfth of Hadrian’s reign (128 - 129), his death in the first year of the reign of Antoninus Pius (138 - 139). THE CELEBRATION OF EASTER In the fragment of the letter of Irenaeus of Lyons to Pope Victor concerning the celebration of Easter, Telesphorus is mentioned as one of the Roman bishops who always celebrated Easter on Sunday, without, however, abandoning church fellowship with those communities that did not follow this custom. None of the statements in the "Liber pontificalis" and other authorities of a later date as to liturgical and other decisions of this pope are genuine. In the Roman Martyrology his ...