Saint Serenus the Gardener was a 4th-century martyr venerated by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
According to legend, he was born in Greece, emigrated to Sirmium in, and was known for his skill at gardening. He rebuked the wife of an imperial guard for walking in his garden and she told her husband, who reported him to the Emperor Maximian. The governor found Serenus innocent of insulting the guard's wife, but had him beheaded in his garden, when he refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods.
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