Saturninus of Dyrrhachium

Holy Martyr Saturninus of Dyrrhachium was an Italian by birth and suffered in the time of the emperor Trajan, in the second century, in the city of Dyrrhachium on the shore of the Adriatic, together with the Holy Martyrs Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompeius, Hesychius, Papias and Germanus.

Being present at the torments of Bishop Astius, crucified by the Romans, they openly glorified the firmness of the confessor and, for this, were seized and thrown into the sea, as confessors of Christ. The waves carried their bodies to the shore, and the Christians hid them in the sand. After ninety years the martyrs appeared to the bishop of Alexandria, commanding him to bury their bodies and raise a church over them.

St Saturninus is commemorated on 20 July, in the new style.