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Blessed Conrad of Saxony

5 April

Profile

Franciscan friar. Missionary preacher in Ircania, an area near the Caspian Sea, a region of primarily of Muslims and Eastern Orthodox Christians. One day as he was preparing to preach the faith in public, he was set on and murdered by a mob. Martyr.

Born

Saxony (in modern Germany)

strangled to death c.1288 in the Ircania region

Additional Information

books
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

sites en français
- La fête des prénoms

fonti in italiano
- Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

“Blessed Conrad of Saxony“. CatholicSaints.Info. 19 March 2019. Web. 28 May 2020. <>