August 13 is the Feast Day of Saint Hippolytus

A theologian and martyr who died of ill treatment in the quarries of Sardinia, Hippolytus was an important Christian in third-century Rome. He wrote in Greek and may have been from the East. His work “The Apostolic Tradition” preserved details about Christian life and customs in the early church. Visiting Rome around 212, Origen, a famous Christian teacher and writer, went to hear Hippolytus preach.
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