Martyr Martyr Romil (Romulus) of Rome

Martyr Romil (Latinized as Romulus) of Rome suffered under Emperor Trajan (98–117 AD). According to his Martyrdom, preserved in the redaction of Symeon Metaphrastes and in the Synaxarion of Constantinople (10th c.), Romil held a high position at the imperial court. When Trajan, discovering many Christians in his army, exiled roughly 11,000 Christian soldiers to Armenia for refusing to sacrifice to idols, Romil openly rebuked the emperor for impiety and for recklessly weakening the army, and publicly confessed himself a Christian.

The enraged Trajan ordered him savagely beaten and beheaded; the exiled soldiers were later also martyred in Armenia. Modern scholarship (Orthodox Encyclopedia) notes the account's historical reliability is doubtful: the office of "prepositus" did not exist under Trajan, and the narrative appears conflated with the unrelated 4th-century martyrdom of Eudoxius, Zeno, and Macarius under Diocletian. His feast is kept September 6/19.