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Saint Marcian of Syracuse
Catholic saint
SaintResearchedAncient RomePre-congregation
Feast: 30 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
50
Died
68
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Syracuse, Saint Marcian, held to be the first bishop of this city.
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 30 October as the one held to be the first bishop of Syracuse.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 30 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q728245 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Marcian of Syracuse (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.