Crispin

This article is about the Christian saint. For other uses of Crispin, see Crispin (disambiguation).

Saints Crispin and Crispinian
The Martyrdom of SS. Crispin and Crispinian by Aert van den Bossche
Martyrs
Born	3rd century AD
Died	286 Rome
Honored in	Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Churches The Church of England
Canonized	Pre-Congregation
Major shrine	Soissons
Feast	October 25
Attributes	depicted holding shoes
Patronage	cobblers; glove makers; lace makers; lace workers; leather workers; saddle makers; saddlers; shoemakers; tanners; weavers; Brgy. San Crispin, San Pablo City, Philippines

Saints Crispin and Crispinian are the French Christian patron saints of cobblers, tanners, and leather workers. Born to a noble Roman family in the 3rd century AD, Saints Crispin and Crispinian, twin brothers, fled persecution for their faith, ending up in Soissons, where they preached Christianity to the Gauls and made shoes by night.

Their success attracted the ire of Rictus Varus, the governor of Belgic Gaul, who had them tortured and thrown into the river with millstones round their necks. Though they survived, they were beheaded by the emperor c. 286.

An alternative account gives them as sons of a noble Romano-Briton family whose father had been killed having incurred the displeasure of the Roman emperor living at Canterbury. As they were approaching maturity their mother sent them to London to seek apprenticeship and to avoid coming to the attention of their father's killer. Travelling there, the brothers came across a shoe-maker's workshop in Faversham and decided to travel no further but to remain in Faversham where there is a plaque commemorating their association with the town. They are also commemmorated in the name of the ancient pub "Crispin and Crispianus" in Strood. It might be thought that a flaw in this account is its failure to explain how the brothers came to be martyred.

See also

• St Crispin Street Fair
• St. Crispin's Day Speech

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Sts. Crispin and Crispinian
• St Crispin and St Crispinian in Faversham, Kent
• Patron Saints of leather, bikers and People wearing leather

Footnotes

Persondata
Name	Crispin And Crispinian
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	286
Place of death	Rome