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Dionysia, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilian, Boniface and Companions

  • Year: 484.
  • Feast Day: Dec 6

Martyrs in North Africa under the Arian Vandal Hunneric. Dionysia, a widow, died at the stake with her little child, Majoricus, and her sister Dativa. Emilian, a doctor, and Tertius, a monk, were flayed alive. The fanatics devised terrible deaths for the others also.