Saint of the Day – 28 August – St Hermes of Rome (Died c130) Martyr, Layman. Patronages – Acquapendente, Italy and Forte dei Marmi, Lucca, Italy. Also known as – Ermete.
Little information has descended to us and what we know, from various sources, is often in conflict with each other.
The Roman Martyrology reads: “At Rome, the birthday of St Hermes, an illustrious man who, as we read in the Acts of the blessed Pope Alexander, was first confined in prison and afterwards, ended his Martyrdom by the sword, under the Judge, Aurelian.”
Saint Hermes is the figure in the back, in armour. Other Saints pictured include Saint James the Great, Saint Joseph, Saint Ghislain and Saint Eligius.
We believe that Hermes was a wealthy freed Roman slave. His brother, St Theodore was also a Martyr. A Catacomb in the Salesian Way bears his name.
Butler’s Lives of the Saints writes of him: He suffered at Rome in the persecution of the Emperor Adrian about the year 132. His tomb on the Salarian Way was ornamented by Pope Pelagius II and his name is famous in the ancient western Martyrologies.
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