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Saint Serenus the Gardener (also known as Serenus of Billom Sirenatus) (French: Saint Cerneuf) was a 4th-century martyr venerated by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.According to legend he was born in Greece emigrated to Sirmium in present-day Sremska Mitrovica and was known for his skill at gardening. He rebuked the wife of an imperial guard for walking in his garden and she told her husband who reported him to the Emperor Maximian.