(ABOUT A.D. 286.)
[Roman and almost all Latin Martyrologies. In the Archdiocese of
Prague the feast of this saint is kept as a double; so also in the
dioceses of Ratisbon, Frisingen, and Passau. By the Greeks on Dec.
18th. Authorities:--The Acts, and another account of his passion in
the Acts of S. Sebastian.]
Saint Castulus, chamberlain of the palace to Diocletian, was wont to
receive Christians into his house, and screen them from the pursuit
of the magistrates. He was denounced to Fabian, the prefect of the
city, who, after having tortured him in many ways, had him cast into a
pit and buried in sand. He was betrayed by a renegade Christian named
Torquatus, the same whom Cardinal Wiseman has introduced into his
historical sketch of "Fabiola."