They were shoemakers by trade who, because of the simple holiness and innocence of their lives, were known to be Catholics. They courageously refused to yield to the persecutors of their Faith who wanted them to apostatize. At the beginning of the reign of Diocletian they were both beheaded. Some of their relics are in Rome. Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian are invoked by Catholic cobblers.
Saints Crispin and Crispinian in their cobbler shop (source)
