Editing Pope Urban I (section)

==Legends and myths==
As no contemporary accounts of Urban's pontificate exist there have been many legends and acts attributed to him which are fictitious or difficult to ascertain the factual nature of. The legendary [[Acts of St. Cecilia]] and the ''[[Liber Pontificalis]]'' contain information on Urban although their reliability is doubtful. Chaucer made him a character in "[[The Second Nun's Tale]]" of ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''.

A story that was once included in the Catholic Church's [[Breviary]] states that Urban had many converts among whom were Tiburtius and his brother Valerianus, the husband of [[Saint Cecilia|Cecilia]]. Tradition credits Urban with the miracle of toppling an idol through prayer.<ref>Roman Breviary: ''Saint Urban began to make his orison to God; and anon the idol fell down and slew twenty-two priests of the law that held fire for to make sacrifice.''</ref> This event is believed to have led to Urban being beaten and tortured before being sentenced to death by beheading.

A further belief, now known as an invention from the 6th century, was that Urban had ordered the making of silver liturgical vessels and the [[paten]]s for twenty-five titular churches of his own time.