Crispin, the patron saint of shoemakers, of noble birth, who with his brother had to flee from persecution in Rome to Gaul, where they settled at Soissons; preached to the people and supported themselves by shoemaking; they finally suffered martyrdom in 287. Festival, Oct. 25.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Crispi, Francesco * Critias