CASSIANO di TANGERI, saint. — He probably suffered martyrdom in 298. Although he is mentioned by Prudentius (Peristephanon, IV, 45), it seems certain that no document concerning his death existed, since, in order to provide him with a history, it was thought fitting to add an account of him in an appendix to the Passio Marcelli, the Tingitan martyr put to death on 30 November of the same year.
According to this Passio, C. was secretary to Agricola, the vicar of the praetorian prefect at Tangier; and, witnessing the unjust condemnation of Marcellus, he protested by throwing away the stylus and tablets on which he was writing; arrested and tried, he was condemned to death. In the Hieronymian Martyrology he is commemorated on 3 December.
BIBL.: Acta SS. Octobris, XIII, ed. Parigi 1885, pp. 274-284; P. Monceaux, Histoire littéraire de l'Afrique chrétienne, III, Parigi 1905, p. 121 ff.; P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, Hagiographica (Studi e Testi, 19), Roma 1908, pp. 132-33; H. Delhaye, Les actes de s. Marcel le centurion, in Analectes Bollandiana, 41 (1923), pp. 276-78. Agostino Amore