Crispinus was the name of several early Christians, besides St. Crispin (q.v.):
1. A bishop, martyred at Astyagis, commemorated November 19.
2. A presbyter of Lampsacus, his native city, who wrote about A.D. 337, a life of bishop Parthenius (given in the Bollandists, s.a.; see also Cave, Hist. Lit. 1:204; Tillemont, 6:288).
3. A Donatist bishop of Colama, addressed A.D. 399 and 406 by Augustine (Epist. 51 [172], 60 [173]).
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