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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Martyr

Crescens of Tomis

A martyr of the city of Tomis, honoured alongside Priscus and Evagrius.

Feast
October 1old style October 14
Era
4th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Crescens of Tomis is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on 1 October (new style), with Priscus and Evagrius, as martyrs of Tomis, the city on the Pontus Euxinus (today Constanța, in Dobruja). The martyrology gives no other details.

The name Crescens comes from Latin and means “growing”. The Church honours him among the confessors of the first Christian centuries of Dobruja, as a saint of the undivided Church.

Commemorated the same day October 1