the name of a large number of saints in the early martyrologies:
(1) Martyr under Decius, commemorated Jan. 30;
(2) commemorated Feb. 9;
(3) son of Claudius, martyr at Ostia, Feb. 18;
(4) bishop of Alexandria, Feb. 26 and April 10;
(5) of Thessalonica, Feb. 27;
(6) of Africa, March 5;
(7) of Nicomedia, March 6;
(8) with Gaius, March 10;
(9) bishop of Jerusalem, martyr, March 18, (See ALEXANDER OF CAPPADOCIA);
(10) martyr at Caesarea in Palestine, March 28, March 27;
(11) saint, April 24, April 21;
(12) the pope ALEXANDER I, said to have been martyred at Rome under Trajan (or Hadrian), May 3; he is named in the Gregorian Canon;
(13) martyr at Bergamo, Aug. 26,
(14) bishop and confessor, Aug. 28;
(15) "in Sablinis," Sept. 9;
(16) commemorated Sept. 10;
(17) "in Capua," Oct. 15;
(18) Armenian patriarch, Nov. 7, April 17, and Aug; 11; (19) bishop and martyr, Nov. 26; (20) martyr at Alexandria, translated Dec. 12.