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Cronides
martyr at Alexandria
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 12 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Alexandria in Egypt, Saints Cronides, Leontius and Serapion, martyrs, who are said to have been drowned in the sea for confessing the name of Christ under the emperor Maximinus.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 12 September as one of those said to have been drowned in the sea at Alexandria for confessing the name of Christ under Maximinus.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 12 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R8ddaa20f — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.