Editing Clement of Rome (section)

== Death and legends of final days ==
According to apocryphal [[Acts of the Martyrs|''acta'']] dating to the 4th century at earliest, Clement was banished from Rome to the [[Chersonesos Taurica|Chersonesus]] during the reign of the Emperor [[Trajan]]<ref name="ODCC self" /><ref name=CE1913/> and was set to work in a stone quarry. Finding on his arrival that the prisoners were suffering from lack of water, he knelt down in prayer. Looking up, he saw a lamb on a hill, went to where the lamb had stood and struck the ground with his pickaxe, releasing a gushing stream of clear water. This miracle resulted in the conversion of large numbers of the local pagans and his fellow prisoners to Christianity. As punishment, Clement was [[martyr]]ed by being tied to an anchor<ref name="Stracke" /> and thrown from a boat into the [[Black Sea]]. The legend recounts that every year a miraculous ebbing of the sea revealed a divinely built shrine containing his bones. However, the oldest sources on Clement's life, [[Eusebius]] and [[Jerome]], note nothing of his martyrdom.<ref name=Schaff />{{rp|639}}

The [[Inkerman Cave Monastery]] marks the supposed place of Clement's burial in [[Crimea]]. A year or two before his own death in 869, [[Cyril and Methodius|Cyril]] brought to Rome what he believed to be the [[relics]] of Clement, bones he found in Crimea buried with an anchor on dry land. They are now enshrined in the [[Basilica di San Clemente]].<ref name=CE1913/> But there are also other traditions<ref>Bernhard Gallistl: 'Klemens von Rom und sein Kult auf der Krim'. In: Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft. NF, vol.45, 2021, pp. 101–143.</ref> about an ancient veneration of the relics in [[Chersonesus]] and the translation of the head to [[Kyiv]]. Other relics of Clement, including his head, are claimed by the [[Kyiv Monastery of the Caves]] in Ukraine.