Ardalió l'Actor

Who they were

Ardalion was an actor who, in the story, was playing a Christian condemned for refusing to deny his faith when, amid the applause, he was suddenly convinced of the truth of Christianity and declared himself a Christian.

He held to his confession before the judge and was burnt alive in an eastern city whose name is not known. Butler says the whole story is probably a fiction, and that his praise in the Roman Martyrology was taken by Baronius from Greek sources.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

An actor martyr of the early Church.