Expeditus
Sign in to saveExpeditus (died 303), also known as Expedite, was said to have been a Roman centurion in Armenia who was martyred around April 303 in what is now Turkey, for converting to Christianity. Considered the patron saint of urgent causes, he is also known as the saint of time; he was commemorated by the Catholic Church on 19 April.
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- Born
- 1868
- Died
- 1939
- Works
- 4
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Key facts
- Saint.attributes
- Depicted as a Roman centurion, holding a palm leaf in his left hand, and raising a cross with the word hodie (today) on it in his right hand. His right foot is stepping on a crow, which is speaking the word "cras" (tomorrow).
- Saint.patronage
- emergencies; expeditious solutions; against procrastination; merchants; revolutionaries; navigators
- Saint.name
- Expeditus
- Saint.image
- The statue of St. Expeditus.jpg
- Saint.caption
- Expeditus with his typical iconographical attributes.
- Saint.honorific prefix
- Saint
- Saint.titles
- Martyr
- Saint.birth_date
- 261
- Saint.birth_place
- Regensburg, Raetia, Germany
- Saint.death_date
- 303
- Saint.death_place
- Melitene, Armenia Minor, Roman Empire(modern-day Malatya, Turkey)
Key dates
- Born
- 300
- Died
- 1 January 303
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Expeditus (died 303), also known as Expedite, was said to have been a Roman centurion in Armenia who was martyred around April 303 in what is now Turkey, for converting to Christianity. Considered the patron saint of urgent causes, he is also known as the saint of time; he was commemorated by the Catholic Church on 19 April.
== Hagiography == Information concerning Expeditus is found in the Hieronymian Martyrology, where he appears as one of six Roman soldiers said to have been executed at Melitene during the Diocletianic Persecution. If he was stationed at Melitene at the beginning of the fourth century, he would likely have been a member of the Legio XII Fulminata.