First Group
Severus (or Secundius), Severian(us), Carpophorus, Victorinus were martyred at Rome or Castra Albana, according to Christian tradition.
According to the Passion of St. Sebastian, the four saints were soldiers (specifically cornicularii, or clerks in charge of all the regiment's records and paperwork) who refused to sacrifice to Aesculapius, and therefore were killed by order of Emperor Diocletian (284-305), two years after the death of the five sculptors. The bodies of the martyrs were buried in the cemetery of Santi Marcellino e Pietro, on the fourth mile of via Labicana, by Pope Miltiades and St Sebastian (whose skull is preserved in the church).
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