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Vulpian of Tyre
levantine Christian martyr (d. 305)
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Feast: 3 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
250
Died
305
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Tyre in Phoenicia, in present-day Lebanon, Saint Ulpian, martyr, who, still a youth, during the persecution of the emperor Maximinus Daia, was sewn into a sack with a dog and a serpent and, thrown into the sea, thus completed his martyrdom.
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 3 April as a youth of Tyre martyred under Maximinus Daia, sewn into a sack with a dog and a serpent and thrown into the sea.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 3 April (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q9366457 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Ulphianus (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.