Saint of the Day – 20 June – Saint Novatus of Rome (Died c151) Confessor, Layman.
The Roman Martyrology reads today: “At Rome, the demise of St Novatus, son of the blessed Senator, Puden and brother of the saintly Priest, Timothy and of the Holy Virgins of Christ, Pudentiana and Praxedes, who were instructed in the Faith by the Apostles. Their house was converted into a Church and bore the title of Pastor.”
Novatus, who is mentioned on 20 June with his brother, the Martyr Timothy, was the son of St Pudens and Claudia Rufina and the brother of Sts Pudentiana and Praxedes.
His paternal grandfather was Quintus Cornelius Pudens, the Roman Senator, who with his wife, Priscilla, was among St Peter’s earliest converts in Rome and in whose house the Apostle dwelt while in that City.
A portion of the superstructure of the modern Church of St Pudentiana (on the Via Urbana) is thought to be part of the Senatorial Palace or of the baths built by Novatus, see the Church below.
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