E00364: The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Eutychianus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00662), tells how he buried 342 martyrs and established rules concerning such burials, and then recounts his own burial in the cemetery of Callixtus on the via Appia outside Rome, on 25 July [AD 283]. In the second edition, but not the first, he is said to have suffered martyrdom.

Liber Pontificalis 28

First edition (as reconstructed by Duchesne)

Eutycianus, natione Tuscus, ex patre Marino, de civitate Luna, sedit ann. I m. I d. I. Fuit autem temporibus Auriliani, a consolatu Auriliano III et Marcellino usque in diem id. decemb. Caro II et Carino consolibus ... Hic temporibus suis per diversa loca CCCXLII martyres manu sua sepelivit. ... Qui etiam sepultus est in cimiterio Calisti, via Appia, VIII kal. aug.

'Eutychianus, born in Tuscia, son of Marinus, from the city of Luna, held the see 1 year 1 month 1 day. He was bishop in the time of Aurelian, from the 3rd consulship of Aurelian and that of Marcellinus [AD 275] to the Ides of December [13 December] in the 2nd consulship of Carus and that of Carinus [AD 283] ... In his time he buried 342 martyrs in various places with his own hands ... He was buried in the cemetery of Callixtus on the via Appia on the 8th day before the Kalends of August [25 July].'


Second edition

Eutycianus, natione Tuscus, ex patre Marino, ex civitate Lunae, sedit ann. I m. I d. I. Fuit autem temporibus Aureliani, a consulatu Aureliano III et Marcellino usque in die idus decemb., Caro II et Carini cons. ... Hic temporibus suis per diversa loca CCCXLII martyres manus suas sepelivit. Qui et constituit ut quicumque de fidelium martyrem sepeliret, sine dalmaticam aut colobium purpuratum nulla ratione sepeliret, quod tamen usque ad notitiam sibi devulgaretur ... Et martyrio coronatur. Qui etiam sepultus est in cymiterio Calisti, via Appia, VIII kal. aug.

'Euctychianus, born in Tuscia, son of Marinus, from the city of Luna, held the see 1 year 1 month 1 day. He was bishop in the time of Aurelian, from the 3rd consulship of Aurelian and that of Marcellinus [AD 275] to the Ides of December [13 December] in the 2nd consulship of Carus and that of Carinus [AD 283] ... In his time he buried 342 martyrs in various places with his own hands. He also decreed that any of the faithful who buried a martyr should never do so without wearing a dalmatic or a purple cloak—it had been brought to his notice that this was happening ... He was crowned with martyrdom. He was buried in the cemetery of Callixtus on the via Appia on the 8th day before the Kalends of August [25 July].'


Text: Duchesne 1886, 71 and 159. Translation: Davis 2010, 11, lightly modified.