E00322: The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Xystus/Sixtus I (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00130), tells how he died a martyr and was buried in Rome close to the body of *Peter (the Apostle, S00036) on 3 April (or 27 March) [AD 126].

Liber Pontificalis 8

First edition (as reconstructed by Duchesne)

Xystus, natione Romanus, ex patre Pastore, de regione Via Lata, sedit ann. X m. II s. I. Fuit autem temporibus Adriani, usque ad Vero at Anniculo. Martyrio coronatur ... Qui etiam sepultus est iuxta corpus beati Petri in Vaticanum VI non. april.

'Xystus, born in Rome, son of Pastor, from the region Via Lata, held the see 10 years 2 months 1 day. He was bishop in the time of Hadrian to the consulship of Verus and Anniculus [AD 126]. He was crowned with martyrdom. … He was buried close to the blessed Peter’s body on the Vatican on the sixth day before the Nones of April [?].'


Second edition

Xistus, natione Romanus, ex patre Pastore, de regione Via Lata, sedit ann. X m. II d. I. Fuit autem temporibus Adriani, usque ad Vero and Anniculo. Martyrio coronatur ... Qui etiam sepultus est iuxta corpus beati Petri, in Vaticanum, III non. april.'

'Xystus, born in Rome, son of Pastor, from the region Via Lata, held the see 10 years 2 months 1 day. He was bishop in the time of Hadrian to the consulship of Verus and Anniculus [AD 126]. He was crowned with martyrdom. … He was buried close to the blessed Peter’s body on the Vatican on the third day before the Nones of April [3 April].'


Text: Duchesne 1886, 55/57 and 128. Translation: Davis 2010, 4, lightly modified.