Getulius

Getulius († 124-138 in Gabii ) was a Christian martyr and saint.

Getulius - the name means: the from Getulien in Africa stem end - was according to legend, the husband of the Holy Symphorosa, with their seven children Crescens, Julian Nemesius, Primitivus, Justin, Stracteus and Eugenius in Tivoli, Lazio martyrdom in the year 120 to have suffered. Getulius lived not far away in Gabii in the Sabine country. He and his brother Amantius had occupied a high position in the army, had but then retreated to her estate, and there founded a Christian community. The imperial commissioner Cerealis was then sent to him, to take him because of his faith in the interrogation. However, it had been converted by Getulius and Amantius Cerealis. The baptism of Cerealis have taken place in a crypt of the Roman bishop Sixtus I.. Meanwhile, the lack of Getulius in the administration of the Emperor Hadrian had not gone unnoticed and the Taxman Vincentius 've finally learned of the conversion of Cerealis and displayed them. Then a Licinius had been sent to Gabii, to arrest the Christians. Besides Getulius, Amantius and Cerealis finally belonged to also Primitivus, a family friend of Getulius. After 27 days in prison Licinius had handed over to the four of the fire. As the flames had been wearing nothing but the condemned, were Getulius, and probably also the other three, was killed.

Relics and veneration

The Martyrologoium of Ado indicates a place of martyrdom Capriolis on the Via Salaria, a place later named Corte di San Getulio wore and today belongs to the municipality of Montopoli di Sabina. In the local church, first, the relics of Getulius should have found before they had been by Abbot Peter of Farfa in the monastery of Farfa ( in Fara in Sabina) transferred 867, to save them from invading Saracens. On the other hand, today is the Church of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria in Rome lay claim to house the mortal remains of the saint. Thither is the year 752, Pope Stephen II also spent the bones of the saints Symphorosa and their seven children. The local sarcophagus, which was found in 1610, bears the inscription Hic requiescunt corpora SS Martyrum Simforosae, viri sui Zotici ( Getulii ) Filiorum et ejus a Stephano Papa Translata. Pope Pius IV was then allowed to spend in a glass urn these relics. 1584, Pope Gregory XIII. some of the remains of the Jesuits as a gift, which she spent in a chapel near the Villa d' Este. 1572 more relics in Jesuit colleges in India and Spain have been spent. In 1587, prevented the governor of Rome, Mariano Perbenedetti, another distraction of the remains by the remaining relics included in a marble sarcophagus. This sarcophagus contains additional relics, which are assigned to the Holy Cyrus and John.

Remembrance of the four martyrs is the 10th June.