| 478 7th. Xyatus or Sixtus, a Roman; he was martyred in the ninth year of his bishoprick [bishopric], and buried in the Vatican.
8th. Telesphorus, a Greek, succeeded. Justin the Martyr flourished in his time. He died a martyr, having sate eleven years and three months and was buried near St. Peter in the Vatican.
9th. Hyganus, the son of an Athenian philosopher, was advanced to the chair under Antonius Pius. He sate according to Eusebius eight years.
10th. Pius, an Italian, born at Aquelia.-He died after being bishop one year and four months.
11th. Aticetus, born in Syria; he is said after eleven years to have suffered martyrdom, and buried in the Via Appia, in the cemetry [cemetery] of Calistus. In his time Polycarp went to Rome.
12th. Soter, or as Nicepheros calls him Soterichus, was a Campanian, the son of Concordius. There was an intercourse of letters between him and Dionysius bishop of Corinth. He died after he had sate nine years.
13th. Elitheusinus, born at Nicopolis in Greece. To him Lucius, King of Britain sent a letter and an embassy. He sate fifteen years, died A. D. 186, and was buried in the Vatican.
14th. Victor, an African the son of Felix, a man of furious intemperate spirit, as appeared from his passionate proceedings in the controversy about the observation of Easter. He was bishop ten years.
15th. Zephyrinus, a Roman, succeeded and possessed the chair eight years. He was a pious and learned man.
16th. Calistus or Calixtus, the son of Domitius, a Roman, a prudent and modest man, he suffered much in the persecution under Alexander Severus under whom he became a martyr, being thrown into a well by the procurement of Ulpian the great lawyer, but a severe enemy to Christians. He sate six years, and though he made a cemetery called after his own name, yet he was buried in that of Calipodius in the Apian way.
17th. Urbanus, the son of Pontianus, a Roman, after six years he suffered martyrdom for the faith. He was buried in Pretextatus in the Apian way.
18th. Pontianus the son of Calpurnius, a Roman. For his bold reproving of the Roman idolatry he was banished into the island of Sardinia, where he died. He was bishop for five years.
19th. Antirius, a Greek, the son of Romilus. He died after he had kept his place one month, though others without reason make him to have lived in it many years.
20th. Fabianus, a Roman was unexpectedly chosen bishop. While several others being in competition, a dove suddenly descended and sat upon his head; the great emblem of the holy ghost. He died a martyr after fourteen years.
21st. Cornelius a Roman. Frequent letters passed between him and Cyprian. After somewhat more than two years he was cruelly whipped and then beheaded.
22d. Lucias a Roman sate two, or as others say three years. He suffered martyrdom by the command of Valerian.
23d. Stephanus a Roman, the son of Julius. Great contests were held between him and Cyprian about re-baptizing those who had been baptized. He was beheaded after he sate two or three years, and was burned with his predecessor.
24th. Xystus, a Greek, formerly a philosopher of Athens, after one year and ten months he suffered martyrdom.
25th. Dyonythus, a monk, made bishop in the judgment of Dyonythus, bishop of Alexandria, a truly learned and amiable person. The time of his bishoprick [bishopric] is uncertainly assigned, but is supposed to have been twelve years.
26th. Felix, a Roman. In his time arose the Manichean heresy. He suffered much about the fourth or fifth year of his episcopate, and was buried in the Aurelian way in a cemetery of his own, two miles from Rome.
27th. Entycianus, a Tuscon. A man exceedingly careful of the burial of martyrs. After one years space he crowned himself with martyrdom.
28th. Caius, or as Eusebius call him, Guiarius, a Daimatian; kinsman to the Emperor of Diocletion. After holding the see eleven years he was beheaded.
29th. Marcilinus, a Roman. Through fear of torment he sacrificed to the gods; but recovering himself, he died a martyr, after he had sate eight or nine years he was beheaded and buried in the cemetery of Priscilla.
30th. Marcalus, a Roman, succeeded. He was condemned by Maxentius, the tyrant, to keep beasts in a stable which he performed with his prayers and exercises of devotion. He died after five years and six months, and was buried in the cemetery of Priscilla.
31st. Eusebius, a Greek, the son of a physician. He suffered much under the tyrrany [tyranny] of Maxentius. He sate six years and was buried in the Apian way near Calistus cemetery.
32d. Miltiades, an African. He might be a confessor under Maxentius, but could not be a martyr under Maxunus, as some assert. He sate three or four years, and was buried in the cemetry [cemetery] of Calistus.
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