Pergentino da Arezzo
Feast: 3 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Pergentinus and Laurentinus are honoured as patrons of Arezzo. Their legend makes them noble brothers, still students, who were arrested under Decius, released because of their birth, went on preaching and working miracles, and were beheaded when arrested again.
Butler says the acts have no historical value and their existence is quite uncertain; Delehaye and others think the story grew from the dedication at Arezzo of a church of St Laurence, the name being misread.
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
Honoured, with his brother Laurentinus, as a martyr and patron of Arezzo.
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed. Thurston and Attwater (1956), vol. II - 3 June
- Wikidata Q3899841 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.