Calepodius

About Calepodius

Calepodius is remembered in the Roman Martyrology on May 10 as a priest and martyr at Rome. The sixth-century Liber Pontificalis also records a cemetery bearing his name on the Via Aurelia and says that Pope Callixtus was buried there. This place-name witnesses an early Roman association with Calepodius, but it supplies no individual life story. A later Passion of Callixtus gives him a role in a fuller martyr narrative; that account is hagiographic and its episodes are not independently established by the earlier source. His exact dates and personal circumstances remain unknown.