St. Novatus
St. Novatus, who is mentioned on 20
June with his brother, the martyr Timotheus, was the son of St.
Pudens and Claudia Rufina, and the brother of Sts. Pudentiana and
Praxedes. His paternal grandfather was Quintus Cornelius Pudens,
the Roman senator, who with his wife, Priscilla, was among St.
Peter's earliest converts in Rome and in whose house the Apostle
dwelt while in that city. A portion of the superstructure of the
modern church of St. Pudentiana (Via Urbana) is thought to be part
of the senatorial palace or of the baths built by Novatus
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