Timolaus and Companions
Feast: 15 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Caesarea in Palestine, Saints Timolaus, Dionysius, Pausides, Romulus, Alexander and another Alexander, martyrs, who, during the persecution of the emperor Diocletian, brought with their hands bound before the prefect Urban, confessed that they were Christians and a few days later, together with their companions Agapius and another Dionysius, merited by beheading the crown of eternal life.
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 24 March as martyrs of Caesarea in Palestine who confessed Christ before the prefect Urban under Diocletian and were beheaded.
- Roman Martyrology, 24 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q16206058 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Timolaus and companions (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.