September 7th

Saint Mark Crisin and Companions, Martyrs of Košice

Saint · Common of Martyrs · Košice, Slovakia · d. 1619

At Košice in the Carpathian Mountains, the holy martyrs Mark Crisin, priest of Esztergom, and Stephen Pongracz and Melchior Grodziecki, priests of the Society of Jesus, who could be brought to abjure the Catholic faith neither by hunger nor by the torments of the rack and of fire.

Latin Original

Cassóviz in móntibus Carpátibus, sanctórum mártyrum Marci Crisini, presbyteri Strigoniénsis, Stéphani Pongracz et Melchióris Grodziecki, presbyterórum e Societáte Iesu, qui nec fame nec rotze ignísque torméntis ad abiurándam fidem cathólicam addüci potuérunt.