A sacrament depends on the form; its virtue is in its form; its vice is in its form.

Listen, confessors and pontiffs, to my woeful story.

I was a priest in Rome under the rule of the Emperor Gordianus.
Without desiring to recommend myself to you for any special merit, I may say that I exercised my priesthood with piety and zeal.

For forty years I served the church of St.Modestus-beyond-the-Walls.

My habits were regular.