Damasus I of Rome

When did Damasus I die?

Damasus I of Rome is dated d. 384 in the archive, which places Damasus I in the Nicene Age (AD 313–400).

What did Damasus I write?

Damasus I of Rome has 2 catalogued writings in the archive: Epigrammata (verse epitaphs for the martyrs) and The Epigrams (some sixty verse inscriptions for the Roman martyrs).

Which early sources mention Damasus I?

Damasus I of Rome is named in 5 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from Damasus of Rome, Jerome of Stridon, Siricius of Rome and Ammianus Marcellinus. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Damasus I from?

The archive associates Damasus I of Rome with Rome.

Here, if you ask, lies heaped a throng of the righteous… Damasus confesses he wished to lay his own limbs here, but feared to disturb the holy ashes of the saints.

[Composed by Damasus, cut by Filocalus, and set at the martyrs’ tombs throughout the Roman catacombs.]

[Damasus set a verse epitaph at this tomb; the epigram is an epigraphic attestation additional to the literary record.]

My words are spoken to the successor of the fisherman, to the disciple of the cross.

It is certain that on one day one hundred and thirty-seven corpses of slain persons were found in the basilica of Sicininus.

You urge me to make a new work out of an old, and to sit in judgment on the copies of the Scriptures now scattered throughout the world… a pious labour, but a perilous presumption.