Commemorated on September 13 The Hieromartyr Cornelius the Centurion: Soon after the sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross and His Ascension into Heaven, a centurion by the name of ...

St. Cornelius was pope for about two and a half years, from AD 251-53. We are not discussing Cornelius, the Roman centurion convert to Christianity, whose story appears in Acts 10.

We join a Roman centurion on one night of his life, as he describes his work repairing Hadrian's Wall. Cornelius is 39 years old and has 80 soldiers under his command, who are now resting before ...