Hippolytus was slain in Sardinia where he had been exiled for being elected as an antipope, the first in the history of the Church. He was reconciled to the Church before his martyrdom.

The sarcophagus room of Hippolytus of the Roman praetorium tower of Tarragona reopens to the public after two years closed ...

That includes a well-preserved fresco near the back of the house depicting the tragic Greek myth of Hippolytus and Phaedra.