Sts. Cajetan and Pope St. Sixtus II and companions.

SAINT SIXTUS II was ordained bishop of the Church of Rome in 257.  The following year, while celebrating the sacred liturgy in the cemetery of Saint Callistus, he was arrested by soldiers carrying ut the edict of the Emperor Valerian.  On the same day, August 6, he was put to death along with four deacons.  He was buried in the same cemetery.

SAINT CAJETAN was born at Vicenza in 1480.  He studied law at Padua and after being ordained a priest he founded the Congregation of Clerks Regular at Rome, to foster the Church’s mission.  He extended this congregation into the district of Venice and into the kingdom of Naples.  He was most earnest in prayer and love of neighbor.  He died at Naples in 1547.