– Was an illiterate and a married vinedresser who brought a grape vine to Pope Julian, which was the sign to him being chosen to be the next to take the throne
– He established the Epokt formula to set fasts and feasts days
– To provide proof of his celibacy when people murmured against him, him and his wife took lumps of coal and placed them in their clothes: when they did not burn, that was taken to be proof to their celibacy
– The Fifth Persecution under Severus in 193 AD by whose hands St. Potamina and St. Perpetua were martyred; Tertullian said during the era of this persecution: “Find me one Christian prisoner in the empire that is guilty of any crime except for being a Christian”.
