Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Authority: — The untrustworthy Acts in the Lessons of the Church of Perugia for this day.] Euthymius, a Roman citizen, with his wife and only son, Crescentius, having been baptized secretly at Rome, fled the capital on the breaking out of persecution under Diocletian, and took refuge at Perugia. There Euthymius died. Shortly after, Crescentius and his mother were arrested and brought before the proconsul Turpius; and Turpius said to the widow: “So you, and your son, and husband, who is dead, have followed Christ !” She answered: “It is true, we have all three been baptized.”

Turpius said: “ Apollo is a god, confess that.” “ No,” said Crescentius; “he is no god, he is a demon.” Then the proconsul ordered both to be beaten with rods, and he said, “ Blaspheme not and ordered them to be kept in separate prisons.

And next morning Crescentius was sent chained to Rome, and was brought before Diocletian [Roman emperor 284–305, who began the ‘Great Persecution’ of Christians in 303] and sentenced to lose his head. The boy was then executed, and buried in the catacomb on the Salarian wray. The body was given by Pope Stephen IX. to the Bishop of Siena in 1058. Another body of the same martyr was extracted from the same cemetery by Pope Urban VIII., in 1606, and given to the Jesuit Church at Tortosa in Spain.