Cessianus

Holy Martyr Cessianus, born around the year 295, was, according to tradition, an eight-⁠year-⁠old child martyred in the persecution of Diocletian, in the year 303.

His body was given in 1838 by Pope Gregory XVI to Bishop Mathias Loras, who took it to the United States. The relics were placed in a side altar in the new cathedral of Saint Raphael at Dubuque, Iowa. After the renovations of the mid-1980s it was decided to place them under the new main altar; on 23 November 1986 the wooden box with the relics of Cessianus was installed in the altar during Mass, where it rests today. He is honoured in the Catholic Church as a saint of the undivided Church, without synodal canonization.