Saint Marcellinus is remembered today in the first Eucharistic prayer. He was a priest in Rome and noted for his piety. He was martyred in the year 304 in the Silva Nigra outside of Rome with Saint Peter by the persecutions of Diocletian. Constantine built a basilica over his tomb.
"The Church has always believed that the apostles, and Christ's martyrs who had given the supreme witness of faith and charity by the shedding of their blood, are quite closely joined with us in Christ" (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 50).
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