Primian

Saint Primian is recorded in the old martyrologies as a cleric and martyr, on 23 February in the Western calendar, in the third century.

The sources call him bishop, martyr and saint, but do not keep the story of his life or martyrdom. Another saint of the same name is known as a "catacomb saint": his bones are kept in the parish church of Kemnath in Bavaria, brought from Rome in 1692, and in May 1693 a solemn procession was held to place them in the church. It is not known whether those bones belong to the saint commemorated on 23 February or to another Primian among those honoured in early Christianity. He is a saint of the undivided Church, without synodal canonization.