Ansanus [SEP] canonization status
Ansanus
Saint Ansanus () (died 304 AD), called "The Baptizer" or "The Apostle of Siena", is the patron saint of Siena, a scion of the Anician family of Rome.
Legend.
His legend states that he was born of a noble Roman family in the third century. While still a child, Ansanus was secretly baptized by his nurse Maxima (venerated as "St. 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, St. 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