Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome
25 October -- Commemoration
If celebrated as a Lesser Festival,
Common of Martyrs, page 464
Crispin and Crispinian were shoemakers and lived in the
third century. They are reputed to have preached the
Christian faith in Gaul whilst exercising their trade and
so, like St Paul earning his living as a tent-maker, were no
drain on the Christian community. They were put to death
for their faith at the beginning of the Diocletian
persecution and died in about the year 287 in Rome.