Longinus of Marseille
Feast: 21 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Marseilles in Gaul, the birthday of St. Victor, soldier. He refused to perform military service or to offer sacrifice to idols, and was at first cast into prison, where he was visited by an angel, afterward he was punished with various tortures, and at last completed his martyrdom by being crushed by a millstone. There suffered also with him three other soldiers, Alexander, Felician, and Longinus.
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 Dominican Martyrology (1955) remembers him on 21 July.
- The Martyrology of the Order of Friars Preachers (tr. W. R. Bonniwell OP, 1955), 21 July
- Wikidata Q3259118 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.