Biography
Cassius of Clermont
About Cassius of Clermont
Cassius is remembered among the martyrs of Clermont in Gaul. The received narrative places the group’s death during Crocus’s devastation of the region around 264.
That account belongs to the tradition of the martyrs, rather than to a surviving individual biography of Cassius. It supplies no dependable account of his family or personal work.
His commemoration appears on May 15 in the Roman Martyrology, although May 16 is also reported. The enormous number of companions attached to the story does not provide individual life details.
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