Germanus of Caesarea in Palestine
martyr at Caesarea in Palestine
Feast: 13 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Caesarea in Palestine, the passion of the holy martyrs Antoninus, Nicephorus, Zebinas, Germanus and Manatha, virgin. She, after suffering scourging, was then put to the fire under the emperor Galerius Maximinus; the others were beheaded for having accused the governor Firmilian of impiety with courage and frankness, because he was sacrificing to the gods.
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 13 November as a martyr beheaded at Caesarea in Palestine for accusing the governor Firmilian of impiety.
- Roman Martyrology, 13 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R9b4b9c83 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.