Proceso

Who they were

Processus and Martinian were honoured in Rome from at least the fourth century, but nothing is known of their real history. Their sixth-century acts, which Butler says deserve no credence, make them the jailers of SS. Peter and Paul in the Mamertine prison, converted and baptised by Peter with water that sprang from the rock, then tortured and beheaded.

A basilica was built over their tomb on the Via Aurelia in the fourth century, where St Gregory the Great preached on their feast, and in the ninth century Pope St Paschal I moved their relics to St Peter's, where they rest in the south transept.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

An early Roman martyr whose relics lie in St Peter's.

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• Paschal I Saint
  “A basilica was built over their tomb on the Via Aurelia in the fourth century, where St Gregory the Great preached on their feast, and in the ninth century Pope St Paschal I moved their relics to St Peter's, where they rest in the south transept.” — this site's research