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Crescentius of Rome
4th-century Christian martyr
SaintPre-congregation
Feast: 4 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
292
Died
303
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Crescentius of Rome (Italian: San Crescenzio di Roma) is venerated as a child martyr by the Roman Catholic Church.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology (1916 English edition), 14 September — 'On the Salarian road, at Rome, during the persecution of Diocletian, St. Crescentius, the young son of St. Euthymius, who ended his life by the sword, under the judge Turpilius' — the boy martyr of Rome (d. 303, aged 11
- Wikidata Q3697042 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Crescentius of Rome (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.