Saints
Croidan
A disciple of Saint Petroc, remembered among the early saints of Cornwall.
- Feast
- June 4old style June 17
- Era
- 6th century
- Place
- Saint Petroc
Life
Saint Croidan was one of the three disciples of Saint Petroc in Cornwall, together with Medan and Degan, in the sixth century. The sources say no more of him.
The three are commemorated together on 4 June among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (saints of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.
Commemorated the same day June 4
Mary of BethanyRighteous · Sister of LazarusJun 4
Optatus of MilevisSaint · Bishop of MilevisJun 4
Metrophanes of ByzantiumSaint · Bishop of ByzantiumJun 4
Petroc of CornwallVenerable · British prince and missionaryJun 4
Botolph of ThorneyVenerable · English abbotJun 4
Sophia of SlutskRight-Believing · Princess of SlutskJun 4
Sophia of ThraceVenerable · Mother of ThraceJun 4
George BogićHieromartyr · Protopresbyter at NašiceJun 4
Methodius of PeshnoshaVenerable · Founder of Peshnosha MonasteryJun 4- Clateus of BresciaHieromartyr · Bishop of BresciaJun 4
- Frontasius, Severinus, Severianus and SilanusHoly MartyrsJun 4
- 90 Hieromartyrs of Montenegro and the LittoralHoly HieromartyrsJun 4