A Word from Cardinal Dolan: Protomartyrs of Rome

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By: Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan

Today is the feast of the Protomartyrs of Rome. Proto means first. They were the first martyrs for the faith in Rome in the first decades of the founding of the Church.

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