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Saint Crescentius of Rome (Italian: 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 Saint Epigmenius. During the persecutions of Christians by Diocletian the family fled to Perugia where his father Saint Euthymius died. Led back to Rome Crescentius who was eleven years old was beheaded on the via Salaria outside of the city walls.
