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[[Image:St Gennesius - Proto-Icon.jpg|right|thumb|Martyr Genesios the actor, of Rome.]]
Saint '''Genesius of Rome''' was an actor of some renown who was [[Martyr|martyred]] for the Christian faith in the persecution of Emperor [[Diocletian]] around the year 303 AD.<ref group="note">[[w:Caesar Baronius|Baronius]] fixes the date of his martyrdom at 303, and [[w:Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont|Tillemont]] (''Mem.'' iv. 695) at 285 or 286.</ref> His [[feast day]] is [[August 25]].
