According to the Golden Legend, St. Peter sent St. Apollinaris to preach the gospel in Ravenna, where he had numerous difficulties with the authorities and was finally beaten to death.
It has been suggested by modern scholars that St. Apollinaris lived not in the time of Peter but at the end of the second century.
Feast day: July 23
At left, detail from the apse of the basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe, near Ravenna
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