and CHRISTIANUS, two legendary saints whose festival, as marked in the calendar, is on the 25th of October. According to the legend, they were brethren, born at Rome, whence they travelled to Soissons, in France, about the year 303, to propagate the Christian religion; and that they might not be chargeable to others for their maintenance, they exercised the trade of shoemakers. But when it was known that they were Christians, the governor of the town ordered them to be beheaded. From that time they were regarded as the tutelary saints of shoemakers.