Expeditus
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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.
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Expeditus was a male human who lived during the Roman Empire. He was born in Melitene in the year 300 and died in the same location on January 1, 303. His occupation was military personnel, specifically serving as a centurion in the Legio XII Fulminata. He spoke Latin.
Expeditus is recognized as a saint with a feast day on April 19. He died by decapitation.
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Authority record · VIAF
- Nationality
- XT
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 5 libraries
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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)
- Saint.venerated_in
- Catholic ChurchLutheranismOriental Orthodox Churches
- Saint.canonized_date
- Pre-Congregation
- Saint.feast_day
- 19 April
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Melitene
- Place of death
- Melitene
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Military rank
- centurion
- Image
- Sant'Espedito Martire.jpg
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- Commons category
- Saint Expeditus
- canonization status
- saint
- date of death
- 0303-01-01
- date of birth
- 0300-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Expeditus
- time period
- Roman Empire
- cause of death
- decapitation
- feast day
- April 19
- military unit
- Legio XII Fulminata
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Expeditus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.