Saints Crispin and Crispinian
Feast Day: October 25
Legends claim these martyrs were third-century missionaries from Rome who preached the Gospel at Soissons, in Gaul, where they worked at shoemakers.
In British tradition they fled France for England because of persecution.
The saints, whose relics may have been enshrined in Soissons and in Rome, are remembered as the patrons of shoemakers and other leather workers.
Shakespeare immortalized Crispin in “Henry V,” in the king’s St. Crispin’s Day speech, rallying his “band of brothers” before the battle of Agincourt.
