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Crispin and Crispinian were noble brothers who left Rome to evangelize Gaul in the mid-third century. They settled at Soissons, not far from Paris, and despite their noble background they together practiced the humble trade of shoemaking. They worked mostly at night in order to preach during the day, and often took little or no pay for their work in a spirit of charity, working only for what they needed to live. Through their words and their example the hardworking brothers gained many converts among the pagans. When the Diocletian persecution broke out in the late third century, the brothers were denounced to the authorities, and handed over to the infamous governor Rictiovarus, who had them tortured severely. After several other methods of execution failed, the pious brothers were finally beheaded, around the year of Our Lord 286. Crispin and Crispinian are hailed as patrons of cobblers, tanners and all other leatherworkers, and thus today has always been a great holiday for shoemakers’ guilds throughout Christendom. The feast is usually referred to as simply St. Crispin’s Day, and gives that name to the famous “band of brothers” speech from Shakespeare’s Henry V.
AT Rome, the holy martyrs Chrysanthus, and his wife Daria. After many sufferings endured for Christ, under the prefect Celerinus, they were ordered by the emperor Numerian to be thrown into a sandpit on the Salarian road, where, being overwhelmed with earth and stones, they were buried alive.
Also, at Rome, the birthday [into heaven] of forty- six holy soldiers, who were baptized together by pope Denis, and soon after beheaded by order of the emperor Claudius. They were buried on the Salarian way, with one hundred and twenty-one other martyrs. Among them are named four soldiers of Christ — Theodosius, Lucius, Mark and Peter.
At Soissons, in France, in the persecution of Diocletian, the holy martyrs Crispin and Crispinian, noble Romans. Under the governor Rictiovarus, after horrible torments, they were put to the sword, and thus obtained the crown of martyrdom. Their bodies were afterwards conveyed to Rome, and entombed with due honors in the church of St. Lawrence, in Panisperna.
At Florence, St. Minias, a soldier, who fought valorously for the faith of Christ and was gloriously crowned with martyrdom during the reign of Decius.
At Torres, in Sardinia, the holy martyrs Protus, priest, and Januarius, deacon, who, being sent to that island by pope St. Caius, were put to death, under the governor Barbarus, in the reign of Diocletian.
At Constantinople, the martyrdom of the Saints Martyrius, sub-deacon, and Marcian, chanter, who were murdered by the heretics, under the emperor Qonstantius.
At Rome, St. Boniface, pope and confessor.
At Perigueux, in France, St. Fronto, who, being made bishop by the blessed apostle Peter, converted to Christ, with a priest named George, a large number of the people of that place, and, renowned for miracles, rested in peace.
At Brescia, the birthday [into heaven] of St. Gaudentius, bishop, distinguished by his learning and holiness.
At Javols, St. Hilary, bishop.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.