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Symetrius
martyr at Rome
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 26 May (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
Also at Rome in the cemetery of Priscilla on the Via Salaria Nuova, Saint Symetrius, martyr.
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 26 May as a martyr buried in the cemetery of Priscilla on the Via Salaria Nuova at Rome.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 26 May (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R397e547c — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.