He, first of the Cymry, gave infants names, for before, names were not given except to adults.
His brother, Linus the Martyr, his sister Claudia and her husband Rufus Pudent, aided the apostle Paul in the Christian Church in Rome. As recorded in II Timothy 4:21 and Romans 16:13, Rufus Pudent and St. Paul are shown to be half-brothers, children of the same mother, they had different fathers; Paul by a Hebrew husband and Rufus, by a second marriage with a Roman Christian.