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Valerius of Scythia
martyr at Constanța in Scythia
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Feast: 15 September (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, Saints Strato, Valerius, Macrobius and Gordian, martyrs who, tradition holds, suffered under the emperor Licinius.
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 15 September as one of the martyrs who, tradition holds, suffered at Constanța in Scythia under the emperor Licinius.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 15 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rab821f17 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.