2 Tim. iv. 21. Baron. an. 44. §. 61.PUDENS, mention’d by St. Paul, in the Year 65, when he wrote his Second Epistle to Timothy from Rome. Baronius, with some others, have believed, that Pudens was a Roman Senator converted by St. Peter, with whom St. Paul abode for some time. But there is Reason to think, that he confounds him with another Pudens who was a Senator, and who is said to be the Father of Praxedus and Prudentiana, in the Time of Pope Pius, above an hundred Years after the Epistle to Timothy was written. The Greeks keep the Festival of St. Pudens, the Disciple of the Apostles, on the 14th of *April *: They put him in the List of the Seventy Disciples, and say, that after the Death of St. Paul, he was beheaded by Nero. There are some that think1 that Claudia, mention’d by St. Paul after Pudens, was Wife to this holy Man. The common Tradition is,2 That St. Peter not only lodg’d with Pudens, but also celebrated the divine Mysteries there, and there consecrated the first Church at Rome, which has since been made that of St. Peter in Bonds.
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