Alexander of Bergamo

Alexander of Bergamo is the patron of the city of Bergamo in northern Italy, where a church has been dedicated to him since the fourth century. He was tortured and killed for not renouncing the Christian faith, around the year 303. The details of his life are uncertain; a later manuscript says that he was a centurion of the Theban Legion who escaped from prison but was recaptured. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 26 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 8 September of the civil calendar.