The Apostolic Age · AD 4–70

Pudens of Rome

fl. c. 66 (death unrecorded) · Believer of the Roman church · Rome

The Apostolic Age

Who Pudens of Rome was

A Roman with a good senatorial cognomen (“modest”), greeting Timothy from the shrunken post-Neronian church. Later Roman tradition grew a great tale around him — a senator host of Peter, whose house became the titulus Pudentis (Santa Pudenziana), with Claudia as his British wife — and Martial jokes about an Aulus Pudens who married a Claudia; none of it can be verified from the first century. The verse gives a name and a fidelity; the archive notes the legend as legend.

Common questions

When was Pudens active?

Pudens of Rome is dated fl. c. 66 (death unrecorded) in the archive, which places Pudens in the Apostolic Age (AD 4–70). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

Which early sources mention Pudens?

Pudens of Rome is named in 2 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from Paul and The Hieronymian compilers. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Pudens from?

The archive associates Pudens of Rome with Rome.

Who were Pudens’ contemporaries?

The archive links Pudens of Rome to 3 other figures, including Claudia of Rome, Linus of Rome and Eubulus of Rome. Each connection is drawn from a source that places them together, not from inference.

Scripture record

Primary-source mentions (2)

Every passage below is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

2 Timothy 4:21

c. AD 55
Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
Paul · read ↗

Martyrologium Hieronymianum (Roman feast of Pudens)

c. AD 450
The Hieronymian compilers · calendar entry · source text

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  1. 1Rome

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