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Expeditus

Legendary catholic saint

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 19 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
300
Died
303
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Expeditus (died 303), also known as Expedite, was said to have been a Roman centurion in Armenia who was martyred around April 303 in what is now Turkey, for converting to Christianity. Considered the patron saint of urgent causes, he is also known as the saint of time; he was commemorated by the Catholic Church on 19 April.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Sources
  • Wikidata Q739082 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Expeditus (CC BY-SA)

Not yet written up in full: no Church source with an account of this person has been found yet. The name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.

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