page_title: Primus and Felician
hierarchical_section_title: Primus and Felician
context_page_description: Saints Primus and Felician were brothers who suffered martyrdom about the year 297 during the Diocletian persecution. The "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" gives under June 9 the names of Primus and Felician who were buried at the fourteenth milestone of the Via Nomentana.
  They were evidently from Nomentum. This notice comes from the catalogue of Roman martyrs of the fourth century.
context_section_description: Saints Primus and Felician (Felicianus) (Italian: Primo e Feliciano) were brothers who suffered martyrdom about the year 297 during the Diocletian persecution. The "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" (ed. G. B. de Rossi-L. Duchesne, 77) gives under June 9 the names of Primus and Felician who were buried at the fourteenth milestone of the Via Nomentana (near Nomentum, now Mentana).
  They were evidently from Nomentum. This notice comes from the catalogue of Roman martyrs of the fourth century.
caption: Saints Primus and Felicianus, from a 14th-century manuscript of the "Golden Legend"
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