Crescentius of Rome

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Crescentius
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Saint Crescentius, Maestà of Duccio.
Born~292 AD
Died~303 AD
Via Salaria, Rome
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church
Feast September 14; October 12 (translation of relics)
Patronage Siena

Crescentius of Rome (Italian : San Crescenzio di Roma) is venerated as a child martyr by the Roman Catholic Church.

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According to tradition, he was born of a noble Roman family and was baptized along with his parents by Epigmenius. During the persecutions of Christians by Diocletian, the family fled to Perugia, where his father Euthymius died. [1] Led back to Rome, Crescentius, who was eleven years old, was beheaded on the via Salaria, outside of the city walls. [2]

Veneration

He was buried in the cemetery of Priscilla on the Via Salaria. His place of burial became a focus of pilgrimage and veneration in the Middle Ages. His body was translated from Rome to Siena around 1058 by Pope Stephen IX at the request of Bishop Antifredus. [3] Other relics were translated to Tortosa in 1606.

The only biographical source concerning Crescentius was derived from the copy of a manuscript from 1600 and conserved in the Biblioteca Vallicelliana. [2] The Acta is not reliable as it was written long after the alleged death of this saint, probably around 1058, when the body of Crescentius was translated to Siena. [2] During the Middle Ages, Crescentius was the subject of a popular cult in Siena.

He is depicted in the Maestà of Duccio.

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