Lucius of Hadrianopolis

Who they were

Lucius succeeded St Eutropius as bishop of Adrianople and, like him, upheld the divinity of Christ against the Arians. He was exiled, came back to face slander, was driven out again, and went to Rome, where he met the exiled St Paul of Constantinople and St Athanasius.

Later he and other citizens of Adrianople were arrested for refusing communion with those condemned by the Council of Sardica; the laymen were beheaded and Lucius was carried off in chains and died in prison in exile, about 350. St Athanasius wrote of his courage.

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

A fourth-century bishop who died in exile for the faith of Nicaea.