Sacrifice

Not long before his first anniversary in office, the bishop was saying Mass quietly. Suddenly, armed men broke in and seized him. They beheaded him and some deacons who were with him, leaving their bodies where they had just been celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Sixtus, the second bishop of Rome by that name, was buried in that same area, in the catacombs of St. Callistus, in August 258.