Saints Helladius, Crescentius, Paul and Dioscorides are honored as Christian martyrs who were burned to death in Rome either in 244 or 326. According to Professor Mauricio Saavedra OSA, "this group was introduced by

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and is fictitious." The old Roman and British Martyrology places their deaths at

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. They are commemorated in the

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on 28 May."The Twenty-eighth Day of May", ''The Martyrology of the Sacred Order of Friars Preachers''
(W.R. Bonniwell O.P., trans.) The Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland. 1998, p. 111 This Crescentius should not be confused with

Crescentius of Rome Crescentius of Rome ( it, San Crescenzio di Roma) is venerated as a child martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. According to tradition, he was born of a noble Roman family and was baptized along with his parents by Epigmenius. During the persecut ...

, who died in 303; this Helladius is not the bishop and martyr commemorated on the same day.

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