Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix [SEP] date of death
Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix
Saints Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix (or "Beatrice, Viatrix") were a group of Christian martyrs who died in Rome during the Diocletian persecution (302 or 303).
Legend.
The legend about them is that the brothers Simplicius and Faustinus were cruelly tortured on account of their Christian faith, beaten with clubs, and finally beheaded; their bodies were thrown into the Tiber (according to another version a stone was tied to them and they were drowned). Their sister Beatrix
ground basilica, that had three naves shared by pilasters.
The martyrs of Generosa.
The martyrs memorialized into the Catacomb of Generosa are four, nowadays usually called "the portuenses saint martyrs": Simplicius, Faustinus, Beatrix and Rufinianus. Of the last one absolutely nothing is known. The high-medieval "passio" tells that the brothers Simplicius and Faustinus died firstly, killed and thrown into the Tiber near Tiber Island; the stream would have trailed their bodies up to the bight of Tiber "“iuxta locum