St. Crescens

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St. Crescens

St. Crescens

Traditional feast

June 26
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

July 30 (also listed: June 27)
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Feast

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on June 26 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: By the Greeks on July 30th, together with Silvanus, Silas, Andronicm, and Epsenetus. But on this day fo the Roman Martyrology.] (KESCENS, disciple of S. Paul, mentioned in the Second EpiBtle to Timothy, as having gone into Galatia, is said in the Synopsis of Doro theus, to have been bishop of Chalcedon, but of this there is nd evidence. The early Latin martyrologists took Galatia for Gaul; and say that he preached and converted many in that country, and founded the church of Vienne, to which he ordained his disciple Zacharias. They add that the relics of S. Crescens were given to the church of Vienne by Pope John VII. However Mainz also claimed to possess the tomb of S. Crescens, who is supposed to have been the first bishop of that see; but it is probable that Crescens, the first bishop of Mainz, if there ever was Siith a person— ^and this is more than doubtful — was quite ft different person from the disciple of S. Paul •S.S. Zoilus and Comp.

Feast days

Feast: July 30
Traditional: June 26

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Saint Crescens.jpg · Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Unknown authorUnknown author, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.