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Timothy the Young Martyr
young martyr given over to the circus games
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Feast: 5 November (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
In the same place, the commemoration of Saints Theotimus, Philotheus and Timothy, martyrs, who as young men were handed over to the circus games for the amusement of the people, and of Saint Auxentius, an old man, given to the wild beasts to be eaten.
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 5 November as a young man handed over to the circus games for the amusement of the people.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 5 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata R968c4809 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.