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Marcellinus the Tribune
tribune and martyr at Constanța in Scythia
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Feast: 27 August (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 Constanța in Scythia, in present-day Romania, the holy martyrs Marcellinus, a tribune, and Mannea, husband and wife, and John, their son, Serapion, a cleric, and Peter, a soldier.
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 27 August as a tribune martyred at Constanța in Scythia, in present-day Romania.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 27 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R27e670c2 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.