Sempronian

Holy Martyr Sempronian was a sculptor in Pannonia and one of the four crowned martyrs, put to death in the persecution of Diocletian. He is commemorated on 9 November (new style), together with Claudius, Castor and Nicostratus.

According to tradition, the four refused to make a statue for a pagan temple and to sacrifice to idols, and for their confession they were condemned to death. Later times kept them in memory as craftsmen who put faith in Christ above their craft and their life. In the West they are called “the Four Crowned Ones”.