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. The ''Passion'' of Saint Cassian is appended to that of Saint

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, conducted the trial. When the death penalty was imposed on St. Marcellus, Cassian threw down his pen and declared that he was a Christian. He was arrested immediately and put to death. Cassian is the

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of modern stenographers. Saint Cassian of Tangier is the martyr mentioned by St.

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(born 348) in his hymn '' Liber Peristephanon'' (''De Coronis Martyrum'') (Carmen IV, 45-4

: "Ingeret Tingis sua Cassianum, festa Massylum monumenta regum, qui cinis gentes domitas coegit. ad iuga Christi."

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*Vincent J. O'Malley, ''Saints of Africa'', ed. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2001, p. 16

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