The Four Crowned Martyrs are known as four saints: Castorus, Claudius, Nicostratus, and Simpronian. Each were stone carvers of quarries in the 3rd century. They were martyred when they refused to carve an idol of Aesculapius for Diocletian. They were all drowned in the River Sava in 305. They were buried in the catacomb of Albano.
There is a basilica in Rome in honor of these martyrs.
They are the patrons saints of sculptors, stone-cutters and masons and against fever. (I wonder how that last one got in there!)
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