Saint Largus

Memorial

• 8 August

Profile

Ministered to the Christian slaves who worked to build and staff the baths of Diocletian. Tortured and martyred with a group of 19 other Christians in the persecutions of Diocletian and Maximian Herculeus.

Died

• excoriated and beheaded in 303 on the Salarian Way, Rome, Italy
• buried near the Salarian Way
• relics translated to Santa Maria in Via Lata, Rome, and at Neuhausen

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Largus”. Saints.SQPN.com. 18 October 2012. Web. 19 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-largus/>