Gregory of Lilybaeum

Who they were

Saint Gregory of Lilybaeum is a bishop-martyr who lived in the 3rd or 4th century. In the Life of Saint Gregory of Agrigento, written around the end of the 7th century by Leontius, abbot of San Saba in Rome, it is recorded that Gregory of Agrigento was imprisoned in the very place where a bishop named Gregory of Lilybaeum, the ancient Sicilian diocese now called Marsala, had once been held and where he suffered martyrdom, condemned to beheading by the tyrant Tircano. In the list of the bishops of Lilybaeum, Gregory is placed second, after Saint Eustace and before Pascasino. Nothing else is known of him; his feast was fixed on 5 June.

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

Bishop of Lilybaeum (Marsala), known only from a passing mention in the 7th-century Life of Saint Gregory of Agrigento as a martyr beheaded by the tyrant Tircano; feast 5 June.

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  “In the Life of Saint Gregory of Agrigento, written around the end of the 7th century by Leontius, abbot of San Saba in Rome, it is recorded that Gregory of Agrigento was imprisoned in the very place where a bishop named Gregory of Lilybaeum, the ancient Sicilian diocese now called Marsala, had once been held and…” — this site's research