英语词汇crispin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Crispin. A word often found in literature for “a shoemaker,” but rarely used in everyday speech, Crispin commemorates the legendary brothers Crispin and Crispinian, patron saints of shoemakers and all leather workers, noble Romans who left Rome for Gaul in a.d. 303 to preach Christianity, supporting themselves by their craft. They made many converts and sur- vived several attempts by Emperor Maximian to put them to death, but were finally beheaded. The martyrs also have St. Crispin’s lance, humorous for “a shoemaker’s awl,” named after them. St. Crispin’s Day is October 25.

词汇	crispin
词源	Crispin. A word often found in literature for “a shoemaker,” but rarely used in everyday speech, Crispin commemorates the legendary brothers Crispin and Crispinian, patron saints of shoemakers and all leather workers, noble Romans who left Rome for Gaul in a.d. 303 to preach Christianity, supporting themselves by their craft. They made many converts and sur- vived several attempts by Emperor Maximian to put them to death, but were finally beheaded. The martyrs also have St. Crispin’s lance, humorous for “a shoemaker’s awl,” named after them. St. Crispin’s Day is October 25.
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