Eleutherius
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There is no unanimously accepted origin story for the street’s name, but the one most frequently cited holds that the eponymous martyrs are Saint Denis — the patron saint of France — and his companions Rusticus and Eleutherius, who were third-century papal emissaries sent to convert the local pagan population.
From Washington Post
St. Irenaeus was near his glorious end; St. Eleutherius, of memory dear to Britain, had just closed his pontificate by martyrdom, and St. Victor sat in his place.
From Project Gutenberg
It is added that he himself was buried there; and the same is recorded of Linus and Cletus, and of Evaristus, Sixtus I., Telesphorus, Hyginus, Pius I., Eleutherius, and Victor, the last of whom was buried A.D.
From Project Gutenberg
About a hundred years later, according to the same authorities, the two missionaries, Phaganus and Deruvianus, who came to king Lucius from Pope Eleutherius, established a fraternity of anchorites on the spot, and after three hundred years more St Patrick introduced among them a regular monastic life.
From Project Gutenberg
The Archbishop of Yorke alleadged, that when the Britaines receiued the Christian faith, in the time of Lucius their King Eleutherius then Bishop of Rome, sent Faganus and Damianus vnto them, who ordeined 28.
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