Zacchaeus of Caesarea
martyr at Caesarea in Palestine
Feast: 17 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Caesarea in Palestine, Saints Alpheus and Zacchaeus, martyrs, who, in the first year of the persecution of the emperor Diocletian, for having firmly confessed the existence of one only God and the kingship of Christ Jesus, after many torments were condemned to death.
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 17 November as a martyr condemned to death at Caesarea in Palestine in the first year of Diocletian's persecution.
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.