John and Paul

Who they were

John and Paul were martyred at Rome on 26 June; their Acts place it under Julian the Apostate (361-363). By the fifth century their tomb was venerated in the house of the senator Byzantius on the Caelian Hill, which his son Pammachius, St Jerome's friend, had made into a church, the basilica now dedicated to them.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: John and Paul have been honoured as martyrs since the fourth century.

Why that counted as sanctity

John and Paul gave their lives for Christ at Rome, and the Church has venerated them in their own house since the earliest centuries.

Connected on this site

• John Saint one of this group
• Paul Saint one of this group
• Saint Chrysogonus Saint
  “He is invoked in the Canon of the Mass in the prayer known as the Communicantes (from the first Latin word of the prayer): "In communion with the whole Church, they venerate above all others the memory of the glorious ever-virgin Mary, Mother of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ, then of blessed Joseph, husband of the…” — Wikipedia
• Francisco Sagarduy de Lasgoitia (Gerardo of Saint Francis) Venerable
  “Brother Gerardo Sagarduy entered the Passionist retreat at Deusto in Bilbao at seventeen and took the habit in 1889; from 1902 he lived in the congregation's general house in Rome, first as sacristan of the basilica of Saints John and Paul and from 1908 to 1956 as porter, a post in which he became known for his…” — this site's research