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Capito
Christian saint and bishop
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 7 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
—
unknown
Died
65
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
In the Chersonese, in Greece, the holy bishops Basil, Eugene, Agathodorus, Elpidius, Aetherius, Capito and Ephrem, martyrs.
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
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 7 March as one of the martyred bishops of the Chersonese.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 7 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q11912230 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.