St. Clement of Rome (d. c. 101)

Clement, of a noble Roman family and learned in Greek, came to the faith through the Apostle Peter and became, by the old lists, the third bishop of Rome after him, from about 92. His letter from the church of Rome to the church of Corinth, written about 96 to heal a quarrel in which its presbyters had been thrown out, is the oldest Christian writing outside the New Testament whose author is known. Tradition says he was exiled to the quarries of the Crimea, where many came to baptism through him, and that he was thrown into the sea with an anchor round his neck. In 861 Constantine, the future St Cyril, found relics held to be his at Chersonesos and carried them to Rome. Feast: November 24.