That is the date accepted by the Bollandists, while the historian Paul Allard (Histoire des Persécutions pendant les Deux Premiers Siècles, Paris, 1885) gives the year as 118.

This is amply attested by their inclusion in so many of the early martyrologies and their extraordinary cult in their native city, where from time immemorial they have been the chief patrons.

[3] Their common feast day on 15 February, the traditional date of their martyrdom, was inserted into the General Roman Calendar.

It was removed in 1969, because their "Acts are completely fabulous, treating Jovita as a preacher, although she was a woman and a man was Faustinus.

[5] The cities of Rome, Bologna, Verona, Pietradefusi and Malečnik share with Brescia possession of their relics.