---
name: "Saint Basileus of Rome"
id: "HIST-SAINT-BASILEUS-OF-ROME-001"
remembered_for: "Martyr at Rome, on the Latin road, with St. Jovinus, under the emperors Valerian and Gallienus (Roman Martyrology, 2 March)."
birth_coordinate: "Not recorded in the source"
death_coordinate: "Rome, on the Latin road (martyr, under the emperors Valerian and Gallienus)"
eras: ["Roman Persecutions"]
linked_figures: ["Saint Jovinus"]
cosmic_vault_pillars:
  - "Historical Profiles"
image_portrait: "assets/images/profiles/saint_basileus_of_rome_portrait.webp"
image_context: "assets/images/profiles/saint_basileus_of_rome_context.webp"
source: "The Roman Martyrology, published by order of Gregory XIII, revised by Urban VIII and Clement X, augmented and corrected by Benedict XIV; translated from the Latin (Rome, 1914 edition) under the Archbishop of Baltimore. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. Public domain. (2 March)"
source_url: "https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft"
---

# Saint Basileus of Rome

## From the Roman Martyrology

*Roman Martyrology (English translation, Baltimore, 1916), 2 March:*

> At Rome, on the Latin road, the holy martyrs Jovinus and Basileus, who suffered under the emperors Valerian and Gallienus.

*No further public-domain account of this saint was found; nothing beyond the Martyrology entry is given.*

## Sources

- The Roman Martyrology, published by order of Gregory XIII, revised by Urban VIII and Clement X, augmented and corrected by Benedict XIV; translated from the Latin (Rome, 1914 edition) under the Archbishop of Baltimore. Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1916. Public domain. Entry for 2 March. https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft (Transcribed from the archive.org scan text of the 1916 Baltimore edition; obvious OCR misreadings corrected, original misprints kept and marked [sic].)