Censorinus of Rome

Holy Martyr Censorinus of Rome received a martyr's death in the year 269, in the time of the Emperor Claudius II, together with twenty soldiers, the guards of the prison. The Church commemorates him on 12 February (new style), together with Saint Hippolytus, Saint Sabinus and the holy virgin Chrysia.

Censorinus was the first dignitary in the time of the Roman emperor Claudius II (268-270). On the strength of a denunciation, he was seized and imprisoned for faith in Christ. There, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, he raised a dead man, and twenty soldiers, the guards of the prison, believed in Christ. With Saint Censorinus they were beheaded. At the same time the virgin Chrysia was brought for interrogation, who courageously confessed herself a Christian and was tortured; after terrible torments she was drowned in the sea. Saint Sabinus was beaten with a heavy hammer, then hung on a tree and burned with fire, and in the torments gave up his soul. With Saint Chrysia there also suffered Philicles, Maximus, Herculinus, Venerius, Styracinus, Menas, Commodus, Hermes, Maurus, Eusebius, Rusticus, Monagrius, Amandinus, Olympius, Cyprus, Theodore, Tribune, the presbyter Maximus, the deacon Archelaus and the bishop Cyrinus. Saint Hippolytus, bishop of Ostia, learning of the tortures of the martyrs, came to the trial and rebuked the tormentor for cruelty; after long torments he was bound and thrown into the sea.