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Saint Gennaro.."...died a martyr in 305 A.D., during the persecution spearheaded by Emperor Diocletian."

"...he risked the wrath of local pagan officials by visiting the deacons Sosso and Proculo and the laymen Eutichete and Acuzio in jail. The warden observed this stranger trying to comfort the Christian prisioners naturally concluded that he must be Christian. Therefore, he too must be shut up behind bars."

"Shortly afterwards the proconsul Timothey had Gennaro arrested and clapped into jail. Subsequently he underwent various forms of torture, without wavering in his resolution to remain loyal to Christ."

"Shortly afterwards the proconsul Timothey had Gennaro arrested and clapped into jail. Subsequently he underwent various forms of torture, without wavering in his resolution to remain loyal to Christ."

"The proconsul's agents then had the generous confessor of the faith thrown headlong into a furnace, fully convinced that the flames would reduce him to ashes. By the grace of God he came through unscathed. Furious, the agents gave themselves no rest until their victim had been sentenced to be beheaded."

"The bishop's body, and severed head, still dripping blood, were gathered up by an old man who wrapped them reverently in a cloth. A good woman of Naples dried up the blood with a sponge and filled a phial with the precious red liquid. The body of Saint Gennaro is preserved in Naples, where he is honored as the city's principle patron."