ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 26th of August WELCOME! SAINT ZEPHYRINUS, POPE AND MARTYR ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Saint Zephyrinus, a native of Rome, succeeded Victor in the pontificate, in the year 202, in which Severus raised the fifth most bloody persecution against the church, which continued, not for two years only, as Dodwell imagined; but to the death of that emperor in 211, as Ruinart, Berti, and others prove from Sulpicius Severus, and other authorities. HE WAS THE SUPPORT AND COMFORT OF THE DISTRESSED FLOCK Under this furious storm this holy pastor was the support and comfort of the distressed flock of Christ, and he suffered by charity and compassion what every confessor underwent. The triumphs of the martyrs were indeed his joy, but his heart received many deep wounds from the fall of apostates and heretics. Neither did this latter affliction cease by the peace which Caracalla restored to the church, and which was not disturbed by...