Pudens was an early Christian saint and martyr. He is mentioned as a layman of the Roman Church in
2 Timothy 4:21.
Life
Born to a family of wealth and distinction, possibly of the
Gens Cornelia, he was the son of Quintus Cornelius Pudens, a Roman
senator
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, and his wife Priscilla, among the first converted by
Peter
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in
Rome
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.
Pudens was baptised by Peter, who was a guest in his parents' house in Rome. A member of the Roman Senate,
["Apostle Pudens of the Seventy", OCA]
/ref> he was the father of two sons, Novatus and Timotheus, and, according to legend, two daughters, Praxedes and Pudentiana. Pudens was martyred under Nero
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(reigned 54–68) and buried in the Catacomb of Priscilla on the Via Salaria.
The acts of the synod of Pope Symmachus (499) show the existence of a ''titulus Pudentis'', a church with the authority to administer sacraments, which was also known as ''ecclesia Pudentiana''.April 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor ...
and also January 4 in the Eastern Orthodox Church calendar[ and May 19 according to the Dominican ]Martyrology
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.
See also
* Santa Prassede
The Basilica of Saint Praxedes (, ), commonly known in Italian as Santa Prassede, is an early medieval titulus (Roman Catholic), titular church and minor basilica located near the papal basilica of Saint Mary Major, on Via di Santa Prassede, Mont ...
* Santa Pudenziana
Notes
References
* Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman and Celtiberian poet born in Bilbilis, Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of '' Epigrams'', pu ...
, ''Epigrams'', ed. & trans. D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Harvard University Press, 1993
* George Edmundson (1913), ''The Church in Rome in the First Century''
Note C: The Pudens Legend
* William Smith (1884)
External links
St. Pudens
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Catholic Online
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Seventy disciples
1st-century Christian martyrs
Saints from Roman Italy
1st-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
People in the Pauline epistles