Saint Cassian of Tangier (or of Tangiers or of Tingis) was a Christian saint of the 3rd century. He is traditionally said to have been beheaded on 3 December, AD 298, during the reign of

Diocletian Diocletian ( ; ; ; 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed Jovius, was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Diocles to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia (Roman province), Dalmatia. As with other Illyri ...

. The ''Passion'' of Saint Cassian is appended to that of Saint

Marcellus of Tangier Saint Marcellus of Tangier or Saint Marcellus the Centurion () (c. mid 3rd century – 298 AD) was a Roman people, Roman centurion who is today venerated as a Christian martyr, martyr-saint in both the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox and ...

and his saint day is celebrated on 3 December.

Life

According to it, he was a court recorder at the trial of St. Marcellus the Centurion. Aurelius Agricola, deputy prefect in the Roman province in

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, conducted the trial. When the death penalty was imposed on St. Marcellus, Cassian threw down his pen and declared that the sentence was unjust. He was arrested immediately and put to death a few days later on December 3.

Veneration

Cassian is the

patron saint A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, fa ...

of modern stenographers. Saint Cassian of Tangier is the martyr mentioned by St.

Prudentius Aurelius Prudentius Clemens () was a Roman Christian poet, born in the Roman province of Tarraconensis (now Northern Spain) in 348.H. J. Rose, ''A Handbook of Classical Literature'' (1967) p. 508 He probably died in the Iberian Peninsula some ...

(born 348) in his hymn '' Liber Peristephanon'' (''De Coronis Martyrum'') (Carmen IV, 45-4

: "Ingeret Tingis sua Cassianum, festa Massylum monumenta regum, qui cinis gentes domitas coegit. ad iuga Christi."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tangier, Cassian Of Mauretania Tingitana Christianity in Morocco 3rd-century births 298 deaths People from Tangier 3rd-century Christian martyrs Roman saints from Africa (continent)