The Lives and Times of the Popes - Saint Anterus – A.D. 235

We find, as the next sovereign pontiff, Saint Anterus, a Greek, said to have been born at Petilia, in Calabria, Graecia Magna, but, according to other authors, at Policastro. He was the son of Romulus, who is said to have been born in Sardinia. Anterus was elected pope on the 9th of September, A.D. 235. He governed the Church only one month. He created one bishop, for the city of Fondi. He suffered martyrdom because he ordered greater strictness in searching into the acts of the martyrs, exactly collected by the notaries appointed by Saint Clement I. Anterus was interred in the cemetery of Calixtus, on the Appian Way, whence his ashes were removed to the Church of Saint Sylvester, in the Campus Martius. They were discovered on the 17th of November, 1595, when Pope Clement VIII rebuilt that church, which had fallen into ruins.

- from "The Lives and Times of the Popes", by Alexis-François Artaud de Montor