Память святых мучеников Прокесса и Мартиниана

The holy martyrs Processus and Martinian were originally pagans and served as guards in the Mamertine prison 2502, located in Rome. The holy Apostles Peter and Paul were imprisoned in that prison for preaching Christianity. Seeing the miracles performed by the Apostles in prison, Process and Martinian believed in Christ; when the Apostle Peter, after prayer, having drawn a cross on the Tarpeian rock 2503, brought water out of the mountain, not only Processus and Martinian were baptized, but also all the others imprisoned in prison, numbering 47 people. Process and Martinian, having believed in Christ and received baptism, released the Apostles from prison; but the Lord himself appeared to the Apostle Peter on his way from Rome, telling him that He was again going to be crucified, and with these words forced him to return to Rome, where he was again taken by soldiers. Meanwhile, it was reported to the chief of Process and Martinian, Paulinus, that they had become Christians. Having called the saints to him, Paulinus began to exhort them to leave Christianity; when they began to object to him and blaspheme the idols, he ordered them to be beaten on the mouth. Subsequently, when, after new, persistent, equally fruitless and vain, exhortations, the saints remained firm in their confession, they were hanged on a martyr's tree, cruelly cut with sharp instruments and scorched by fire on their sides. But the saints bravely endured all these sufferings, and they were encouraged and consoled by one Roman woman named Lucina. Meanwhile, God's punishment was not slow to befall the wicked tormentor. Peacock, who gave the order to torture the saints, was immediately punished by God by being deprived of his left eye and, being tormented by an evil spirit, died three days later. The son of Paulinus insisted before the prefect of Rome in 2504 to immediately put the holy martyrs to death, which is why they were beheaded outside the walls of the city of Rome in 2505. Their honorable bodies were taken by the aforementioned Lucina and buried with honors due to holy martyrs. On the same day, the memory of the Monk Farmufy, who lived in the 4th century in the same desert where the Monk John labored in a well, remembered on March 29, whom Farmufy served, feeding him. The Mamertine prison was located in the northern part of the city of Rome. It was intended mainly for state criminals, which included Christians. This prison has been preserved in a restored (restored) form even now, and those sections of the prison where the Apostles Peter and Paul were imprisoned, as a sacred place, are guarded by Catholics with special attention. The Tarpeian Rock was located on the western side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome. In ancient Rome, this rock served as a place from which criminals sentenced to death were thrown out. According to the Roman legend, this rock received its name for the following reason: Tarpeia, a Vestal (a virgin who served at a pagan altar), during the war of Romulus with the Sabine king Titus Tatius, tempted by the promise of gold, allowed the Sabines into the Capitol. Since, according to the condition, the Sabines had to give Tarpeia what they wore on her left hand, then, having ascended the Capitol, they threw shields at the traitor, instead of the bracelets she had expected, under the weight of which she died. Since then, this cliff began to be called the Tarpeian Rock. The prefect is the head of the city. The death of the holy martyrs followed in the second half of the 1st century. Their relics now rest in the Vatican Cathedral of the Apostle Peter, in the chapel named after them. You might be interested in: