Is the centurion of great faith whose servant Our Lord cured a saint?

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In the Gospels a Roman centurion asks Our Lord to cure his servant. When Our Lord is going to go to him the centurion shows great faith in telling Our Lord that he need not come but that the centurion has enough faith that he can cure the servant without even seeing him, Our Lord marvels at his great faith, Is the centurion a saint and if so what is his name and feast day?
 
The centurion of Matthew 8 and Luke 7 is not singled out as a saint by tradition, unlike the centurion Saint Longinus who declared the divinity of Christ (Mark 15:39; feast day March 15) or the centurion Saint Cornelius who had his family baptized (Acts 10; feast day Feb 2).

Tradition never connected the centurion of “great faith” with either Longinus or Cornelius so he was most likely a separate person. What happened to him has been lost to history. While he is not a declared saint, he might be one of the throng of undeclared saints of heaven.
 
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