Career
According to tradition, he lodged Saint Peter and was baptised by him, and was martyred under Nero (reigned 54–68). He is said to have been the son of Quintus Cornelius Pudens, a Roman Senator. The acts of the synod of Pope Symmachus (499) show the existence of a titulus Pudentis, a church with the authority to administer sacraments, which was also known as ecclesia Pudentiana.
