Cassian

Cassian, or Saint Cassian of Imola was a Christian saint of the 4th century. He was the Bishop of Brescia.

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This saint is different from St. John Cassian, the Abbot of St. Victor Abbey in Marseille, who died in 433.

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Little is known about his life, although the traditional accounts converge on some of the details of his martyrdom. He was a schoolmaster at Imola. Rather than sacrifice to the Roman gods, as so ordered by the current emperor, Julian the Apostate, he was condemned to death and turned over to his own students (some authorities write that this event took place during the reign of Diocletian). Since they were eager for revenge for the many punishments he had inflicted on them, they bound him to a stake and tortured him to death by stabbing them with their pointed iron styli, the devices then used to mark wooden or wax writing tablets. His traditional date of martyrdom is August 13, 363; August 13 is his feast day on the Roman calendar.

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Cassian is the patron saint of Mexico City, and of parish clerks.

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Christian: :This article is about the religious people known as Christians; for the 1980s British music group, see The Christians.For other uses of the term Christian, see Christian (disambiguation)....

4th century: As a means of recording the passage of time, the 4th century was that century which lasted from 301 to 400....

Brescia: :For the Italian administrative area, see Province of Brescia...