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Serenus the Gardener
Saint
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 23 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
250
Died
302
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Sirmium in Pannonia, today in Serbia, Saint Serenus or Sinerus, martyr, who, a gardener, was denounced by a woman he had rebuked for her lewdness and taken prisoner by the judge; he professed himself a Christian and, refusing to sacrifice to the gods, died by beheading.
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 Roman Martyrology remembers him on 23 February as a gardener of Sirmium beheaded for refusing to sacrifice to the gods.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 23 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q4420732 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Serenus the Gardener (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.