John and Crispus

John and Crispus were, according to tradition, priests in Rome. They devoted themselves to recovering and burying the bodies of the martyrs, and for this they themselves received the crown of martyrdom. They are saints of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

Their commemoration falls on 18 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 31 August of the civil calendar. We have no further details of their lives.