Saint Chrysogonus

Chrysogonus was a Christian martyred at Aquileia, in northern Italy, around 304 during the persecution of Diocletian. Little is known for certain about his life, but his cult spread early to Rome, where a church in Trastevere was dedicated to him by the 5th century. According to a later legend, he was the teacher and spiritual guide of Saint Anastasia, and after long imprisonment he was beheaded and his body thrown into the sea.

The Basilica of San Crisogono in Rome's Trastevere district still bears his name. He is one of the martyrs remembered in Eucharistic Prayer I.