Why the English commemorate a pair of French Saints

Posted by isaac, on October 25th, 2011

Saints Crispin and Crispinian are French—the patron saints of cobblers, tanners, and leather workers. Or maybe they were English, after all—although still cobblers. In the French version, they are tortured, thrown into a river with millstones around their necks, and survive to be beheaded, all as punishment for preaching the Gospel to the Gauls. (Sounds . . . → Read More: Why the English commemorate a pair of French Saints

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Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian

Posted by petrus, on October 25th, 2011

O Lord God, whose Martyrs Crispin and Crispinian laboured with their own hands and suffered all things that the Gospel might not be hindered: Grant us grace that both in deed and endurance we may be workers together with thee and thy Saints for the everlasting kingdom of thy Son; who liveth and reigneth with . . . → Read More: Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian

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