Saints Helladius, Crescentius, Paul and Dioscorides are honored as Christian martyrs who were burned to death in Rome either in 244Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of RomeMonks of Ramsgate. "Crescens, Dioscorides, Paul and Helladius". Book of Saints 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 14 October 2012 or 326.Janos, S. "The Holy Martyrs Crescentius, Paul and Dioscorides", Holy Trinity Orthodox Church According to Professor Mauricio Saavedra OSA, "this group was introduced by Baronius and is fictitious."Saavedra, Mauricio. The Church of Smyrna: History and Theology of a Primitive Christian Community Peter Lang, 2015, p. 199,
The old Roman and British Martyrology places their deaths at Corinth.The Roman and British Martyrology: Dublin, O'Neill, 1846. p. 167
They are commemorated in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church on 28 May."The Twenty-eighth Day of May", The Martyrology of the Sacred Order of Friars Preachers (W.R. Bonniwell O.P., trans.) The Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland. 1998, p. 111
This Crescentius should not be confused with Crescentius of Rome, who died in 303; this Helladius is not the bishop and martyr commemorated on the same day.
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