# Crescentius

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**Crescentius** may refer to:

- The mediaeval writer on agriculture, Petrus de Crescentius, or [Pietro de' Crescenzi](/source/Pietro_de'_Crescenzi)
- [Crescentius of Jesi](/source/Crescentius_of_Jesi) or Crescentius Grizi of Jesi (died 1263), Italian Franciscan
- [Crescentius Richard Duerr](/source/Crescentius_Richard_Duerr), President of De La Salle College in the Philippines

One of several leaders of the [Roman](/source/Ancient_Rome) aristocracy in the tenth century, during their opposition to the imperial and papal government of the time:

- [Crescentius the Elder](/source/Crescentius_the_Elder)
- [Crescentius the Younger](/source/Crescentius_the_Younger) (d. 998 AD)
- [John Crescentius](/source/John_Crescentius)

One of several saints:

- [Crescentius of Rome](/source/Crescentius_of_Rome), [child saint](/source/Child_saint) (feast day: September 14)
- St. Crescentius, [bishop of Mainz](/source/Archbishopric_of_Mainz) in the 2nd century AD
- St. Crescentius, deacon of [Saint Zenobius](/source/Saint_Zenobius)
- St. Crescentius, companion of [Saint Romulus of Fiesole](/source/Saint_Romulus_of_Fiesole)
- [Crescentius](/source/Helladius,_Crescentius,_Paul_and_Dioscorides), one of a group of four martyrs killed in 326

[*Crescentius* (insect)](/source/Crescentius_(insect)), a genus of true bugs

## See also

- [Crescentinus](/source/Crescentinus)

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