03 Works, Today, March 16th, is St. Aristobulus’s Day, With Footnotes – #74

St. Aristobulus of Britain (1)
St. Aristobulus of Britain

Aristobulus of Britannia is a Christian saint named by Hippolytus of Rome (170-235) and Dorotheus of Gaza (505-565) as one of the Seventy Disciples mentioned in Luke 10:1–24 and as the first bishop in Roman Britain.

Aristobulus preached and died in Roman Britain. While some orthodox traditions say he “died in peace”, others say he was martyred in Wales. Catholic tradition says he was martyred. The Benedictine monk Serenus de Cressy (1605–1674) maintained that Aristobulus was ordained by St. Paul and died at Glastonbury Abbey in 99…

 

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