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Evaristus was born in Bethlehem, of both Greek and Jewish descent, and after his conversion to Christianity he eventually made his way to Rome. Around the close of the first century, Evaristus succeeded the martyred St. Clement I as head of the Church. Though the office of the papacy then carried great risk of martyrdom, Evaristus reigned for close to a decade, celebrating many ordinations and consecrations, and continuing to guide the young Church through a time of growth and persecution. Evaristus is traditionally held to have established the office of cardinal priests, dividing Rome between them in an early version of parishes. He also decreed that a bishop was to be attended by seven deacons, and mandated the public celebration of marriage with the blessing of a priest, as done by the Apostles. Dom Prosper Gueranger asserts that Evaristus was the first pope to reign after the last of the Apostles, St. John the Evangelist, had died. Though the details of his martyrdom have not survived, tradition has always held that Evaristus died for the faith like all of the earliest popes. He was buried on the Vatican Hill, near the tomb of St. Peter.
AT Rome, in the time of the emperor Adrian, St. Evaristus, pope and martyr, who enriched the Church of God with his blood.
In Africa, the holy martyrs Rogatian, priest, and Felicissimus, who received the bright crown of martyrs, in the persecution of Valerian and Gallienus. They are mentioned by St. Cyprian in his epistle to the Confessors.
At Nicomedia, the holy martyrs Lucian, Florius and their companions.
The same day, St. Quodvultdeus, bishop of Carthage. By the Arian king Genseric, he and his clergy were put on board of leaking boats without oars or sails, but beyond all expectations he landed at Naples, and there in exile died a confessor.
At Narbonne, St. Rusticus, bishop and confessor, who flourished in the time of the emperors Valentinian and Leo.
At Salerno, St. Gaudiosus, bishop.
At Pavia, St. Fulk, bishop.
At Hildesheim, in Saxony, St. Bernward, bishop and confessor, who was ranked among the saints by Celestine III.
Also, St. Quadragesimus, sub-deacon, who raised a dead man to life.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.