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MARCELLINUS, ST , according to the Liberian See also:catalogue, became See also:bishop of See also:Rome on .the 30th of See also:June, 296; his predecessor was See also:Caius or See also:Gaius. He is not mentioned in the Martyrologium hieronymianum, or in the Depositio episcoporum, or in the Depositio martyrum. The See also:Liber pontificalis, basing itself on the Acts of St Marcellinus, the See also:text of which is lost, relates that during See also:Diocletian's persecution Marcellinus was called upon to See also:sacrifice, and offered See also:incense to idols, but that, repenting shortly afterwards, he confessed the faith of See also:Christ and suffered martyrdom with several companions. Other documents speak of his defection, and it is probably this See also:lapse that explains the silence of the See also:ancient liturgical calendars. In the beginning of the 5th See also:century Petilianus, the Donatist bishop of See also:Constantine, affirmed that Marcellinus and his priests 'had given up the See also:holy books to the pagans during the persecution and offered incense to false gods. St See also:Augustine contents himself with denying the affair (Contra litt. Petiliani, ii. 202; De unico baptismo, 27). The records of the pseudo-See also:council of Sinuessa, which were fabricated at the beginning of the 6th century, See also:state that Marcellinus after his fall presented himself before a council, which refused to try him on the ground that prima seder a nemine iudicatur. According to the Liber pontificalis, Marcellinus was buried, on the 26th of See also:April 304, in the See also:cemetery of Priscilla, on the Via See also:Salaria, 25 days after his martyrdom; the Liberian catalogue gives as the date the 25th of See also:October. The fact of the martyrdom, too, is not established with certainty. After a considerable See also:interregnum he was succeeded by See also:Marcellus, with whom he has sometimes been confounded.

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Duchesne, Liber pontificalis, I. lxxiii.–lxxiv. 162–163, and II. 563. (H.

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