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About St. Basilides
d. c. 205 · Feast June 30 · Soldier / Martyr
Pagan Roman soldier in Alexandria who guarded St. Potamiana to her martyrdom and protected her from a hostile mob. Converted after she appeared to him in visions promising her prayers; martyred under Septimus Severus c. 205. Declared patron of Italian Prison Guards (Corpo degli Agenti di Custodia, now Polizia Penitenziaria) on September 2, 1948.
St. Basilides is the patron saint of Prison Guards, Soldiers and Converts.
