Photo 7 of 12 for St Clement 1923 Dedication
The Martyrdom of St. Clement, Pope and Martyr.
Painted by Miss India Kreider of the Munich Studio.
In the Roman martyrology to be read on the eve of November 23, the Feast of St. Clement, we have the following brief account of what is traditionally known of the life of the patron Saint of St. Clement’s church:
“Upon the 23rd of November was born into the better life the holy Pope Clement, the third after the blessed Apostle Peter who held the Papacy. In the persecution under the Emperor Trajan he was sent to the Crimea, where he was sunk in the sea with an anchor tied to his neck, and so received the crown of martyrdom. In the time of Pope Nicholas I., his body was brought to Rome and honourably buried in the church which had already been built in his name.”