Sylvain de Rome

Who they were

Silvanus of Rome is honoured as a saint by Catholics and by the Orthodox. He was a son of Saint Felicity of Rome, and was put to death at Rome about the year 160 together with his mother and his six brothers.

His feast is kept on 5 May and 23 November in the West and on 25 January in the East.

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

One of the seven sons of Saint Felicity, martyred with his mother at Rome.