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His legend states that he was born of a noble Roman family in the third century.
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Ansano Ansanus
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While still a child, Ansanus was secretly baptized by his nurse Maxima (venerated as Street Maxima of Rome) and was secretly brought up as a Christian. Ansanus openly declared his Christian faith during the persecutions of Diocletian, when he was nineteen years old. According to tradition, Saint Ansanus preached the Gospel in Bagnoregio (then Bagnorea) and the church of Santa Maria delle Carceri outside the Alban Gate was said to have been built above the prison in which he was confined.
According to tradition, Ansanus and Maxima were scourged.
Maxima died from this. Ansanus, however, survived this torture, as well as the next one: being thrown into a pot of boiling oil.
He was then taken to the city of Siena as a prisoner. He was decapitated by order of Roman Emperor Diocletian.
He was venerated as one of the patron saints of Siena.
He is depicted in the Maestà of Duccio.
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December 1, 304 (aged 20) -
Religion
Christian