Feast day: August 13

Sts. Pontian & Hippolytus

Martyrs · d. c. 235

Patron of —

A pope and the rival churchman who had set himself up against him, both condemned to the deadly mines of Sardinia, where they were reconciled before dying for the same faith.

Bitter opponents in life — one a pope, the other the first antipope — they made peace in the mines and died as brother martyrs.