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Also known as

• Crisaunt
• Crescentius
• Crisanto

Memorial

• 25 October

Profile

Married to Saint Daria. Zealous and public in his Christianity. Martyred in the persecutions of Numerian and Carinus.

Not surprisingly, many legends developed around a couple of married martyrs, and others were re-written to use them as their lead characters. Modern scholarship has dismissed all these, leaving only two of the thousands of faithful who lost their lives in the early days of the Church.

Born

• Egyptian

Died

• stoned to death c.283 in a sandpit off the Salarian Way, Rome, Italy
• relics at Bad Münstereifel, Germany

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• Eissel, Germany
• Salzburg, Austria

Representation

• ox skin
• sand pit

MLA Citation

• “Saint Chrysanthus“. CatholicSaints.Info. 6 August 2020. Web. 28 February 2021. <>