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This article is about a third century Christian saint. For the neighborhood in Tennessee called "Saint Elmo", see Saint Elmo National Historic District.
Saint Erasmus of Formiae (died about 303), also known as Saint Elmo, is the patron saint of sailors. St. Elmo's Fire is named after him. Erasmus or Elmo is also one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, shadowy figures of Christian mythology who were venerated especially in Central Europe as intercessors.
The Acts of Saint Elmo were partly compiled from legends that confuse him with a Syrian bishop Erasmus of Antioch. Jacobus de Voragine in the Golden Legend credited him as a bishop at Formia over all the Italian Campania, as a hermit on Mount Lebanon, and a martyr in the persecutions under Eastern Roman Emperor Diocletian.
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