Lives on The African Fathers

Dominic, Victor, Primian, Lybosus, Saturninus, Crescentius, Secundus and Honoratus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 29 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Dec 29

Martyrs in North Africa.

Castor, Victor and Rogatian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Dec 28

Martyrs in North Africa.

Lucian, Metrobius, Paul, Zenobius, Theotimus and Drusus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 24 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Dec 24

Martyrs in Tripoli in North Africa.

Timothy

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 250.
Feast Day: Dec 19

A deacon burnt alive in North Africa under Decius.

Moses (Moysetes)

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 250.
Feast Day: Dec 18

A martyr in North Africa who probably suffered under Decius.

Quintus, Simplicius and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 255.
Feast Day: Dec 18

Martyrs in North Africa under the Emperors Decius and Valerian.

Victurus, Victor, Victorinus, Adjutor, Quartus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Dec 18

A group of thirty-five martyrs in North Africa.

Women Martyred by Vandals

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 482.
Feast Day: Dec 16

A great number of women martyred under Hunneric, Arian King of the Vandals.

Faustinus, Lucius, Candidus, Caelian, Mark, Januarius and Fortunatus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 15 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Dec 15

Martyrs in North Africa.

Valerian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 15 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 457.
Feast Day: Dec 15

Bishop of Abbenza in North Africa who, aged over eighty, was left to die of exposure for refusing to give up the sacred vessels. He died under the Arian Genseric King of the Vandals.

Miltiades

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 10 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 314.
Feast Day: Dec 10

Although he had a Greek name, he may have been born in North Africa. He was Pope of Rome from 311 to 314, when the Emperor Constantine granted toleration to the Church. St Miltiades condemned Donatism and was venerated as a martyr on account of his many sufferings during the persecution of Maximian.

Peter, Successus, Bassian, Primitivus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 09 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Dec 9

Martyrs in North Africa.

Restitutus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 09 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Dec 9

Bishop of Carthage in North Africa.

Servus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 483.
Feast Day: Dec 7

A layman of noble birth who lived in North Africa. He was seized and tortured to death under the Arian Vandal King Hunneric.

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

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Majoricus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 06 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 484.
Feast Day: Dec 6

Son of St Dionysia, who encouraged him to suffer martyrdom and buried him in her own house. The martyrdom took place in North Africa under the Arian Hunneric the Vandal.

Crispina

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 05 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 304.
Feast Day: Dec 5

A wealthy matron in Thebeste in Numidia in North Africa. She was horribly tortured and ultimately beheaded.

Julius, Potamia, Crispin, Felix, Gratus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 05 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 302.
Feast Day: Dec 5

Twelve martyrs who suffered in Thagura in Numidia in North Africa under Diocletian.

Cassian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 03 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 298.
Feast Day: Dec 3

A court recorder, Cassian was taking down the Acts of the proceedings at the trial of St Marcellus at Tangier in North Africa. Indignant at the injustice done to the martyr, he threw down his pen and declared himself to be Orthodox. He was arrested and a few weeks later he too suffered martyrdom.

Claudius, Crispin, Magina, John and Stephen

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 03 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Dec 3

Martyrs in North Africa.

Severus, Securus, Januarius and Victorinus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 02 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 450.
Feast Day: Dec 2

Martyrs in North Africa who suffered under the Vandals.

Papinianus and Mansuetus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 5th cent.
Feast Day: Nov 28

Bishops in North Africa martyred under the Arian Vandal King Genseric.

Valerian, Urban, Crescens, Eustace, Cresconius, Crescentian, Felix, Hortulanus and Florentian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 5th cent.
Feast Day: Nov 28

Bishops from North Africa exiled by the Arian King Genseric. They reposed in exile and were afterwards honoured as confessors for Orthodoxy.

Felicity

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Nov 23

A widow martyred with her sons either in Rome or else in North Africa under Decius. They were buried in Rome.

Maurus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Nov 22

Born of Christian parents in North Africa, he went to Rome where he was martyred under Numerian.

Gelasius I

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 496.
Feast Day: Nov 21

Born in Africa, he became Pope of Rome in 492. He was one of the most energetic bishops of his time.

Oriculus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 430.
Feast Day: Nov 18

Martyrs under the Arian Vandals near Carthage in North Africa.

Rufinus, Mark, Valerius and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 16 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Nov 16

Martyrs in North Africa.

Secundus, Fidentian and Varicus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Nov 15

Martyrs in North Africa.

Quintian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 527.
Feast Day: Nov 13

Born in North Africa, he fled to France to escape the Arian-Vandal persecution. Eventually he became Bishop of Rodez, but was exiled by the Arian Visigoths. He went to Auvergne where he succeeded St Euphrasius as Bishop of Clermont.

Quintinus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 13 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 527.
Feast Day: Nov 13

Born in North Africa, he fled to France to escape the Arian-Vandal persecution. Eventually he became Bishop of Rodez, but was exiled by the Arian Visigoths. He went to Auvergne where he succeeded St Euphrasius as Bishop of Clermont.

Felix of Thynissa

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 06 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Nov 6

A martyr who suffered in Thynissa near Hippo (Bone) in North Africa. He was found dead in prison the day before he was to be executed.

Publius, Victor, Hermes and Papias

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 02 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Nov 2

Martyrs in North Africa.

Caesarius and Julian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Nov 1

The former was a deacon from North Africa and the latter a priest. Both were martyred in Terracina in Italy. The church of St Caesarius in Rome is dedicated to St Caesarius.

Eutropia

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 30 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: Unknown.
Feast Day: Oct 30

A martyr in North Africa, probably under Valerian.

Marcellus of Tangier

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 30 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: d. 298.
Feast Day: 30 October

A Roman centurion in Tangier who, during a festival honoring the Emperor, refused to join the pagan celebrations and declared his Christian faith. He was martyred along with the notary who refused to record the official report of the trial (a companion of St Cassian).

Unnamed Martyrs

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 30 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: Unknown.
Feast Day: Oct 30

A group of Christians, numbering between one and two hundred, massacred in one of the early persecutions.

Martyrs Africanus, Terence, Maximus, Pompeius, and 36 others of Carthage

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: d. 250.
Feast Day: 28 October

Terence and thirty-nine companions suffered under Decius when the governor Fortunianus demanded sacrifice to pagan idols. After enduring severe tortures (burning irons, vinegar and salt on wounds, iron claws), the martyrs’ prayers caused a temple of Hercules to collapse. Zenon, Alexander, and Theodore were beheaded after further torture; Terence and the rest were later beheaded as well, after enduring imprisonment in chains and, according to tradition, being miraculously freed and fed by an angel overnight.

Gaudiosus of Naples

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 455.
Feast Day: Oct 27

Bishop of Abitina in North Africa and exiled by the Arian Vandal King Genseric (440), he took refuge at Naples where he founded a monastery.

Rogatian and Felicissimus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 256.
Feast Day: Oct 26

Rogatian, a priest, and Felicissimus, a layman, belonged to the church of Carthage in North Africa where they were martyred.

Felix (Africanus), Audactus (Adauctus), Januarius, Fortunatus and Septimus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 303.
Feast Day: Oct 24

Felix was a Bishop of Thibiuca in North Africa, martyred with others for refusing to deliver up the sacred books. He was one of the first victims of Diocletian.

Martinian, Saturian and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 16 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 458.
Feast Day: Oct 16

Four brothers, reduced to slavery in the house of an Arian Vandal in Mauretania in North Africa. The four brothers were martyred under Genseric by being dragged by horses.

Saturninus, Nereus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 16 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 450.
Feast Day: Oct 16

A group of some three hundred and sixty-five martyrs who suffered in North Africa under the Vandal King Genseric.

Agileus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 15 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 300.
Feast Day: Oct 15

He was martyred in Carthage in North Africa, but his relics were later translated to Rome, which was mentioned in an epistle from Pope St Gregory the Great to the bishop of Carthage Dominicus, Register of Letters 12.1: ‘Furthermore, we have received what your Holiness sent us, the blessing of your martyr, Saint Agileus, with the same love as yours in sending it.’ (Praeterea ex transmissione uestrae sanctitatis beati Agilegi martyris benedictionem ea caritate qua nobis est a uobis transmissa percepimus.)

Felix and Cyprian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 484.
Feast Day: Oct 12

Two bishops in North Africa, leaders of a great multitude of Orthodox - the number of four thousand nine hundred and sixty-six is usually given- driven to starvation and death in the Sahara Desert by the Arian Vandal King, Hunneric.

Cerbonius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 580.
Feast Day: Oct 10

One of the bishops in North Africa driven from their sees by the Arian Vandals. He settled at Piombino in Tuscany in Italy and was a bishop there.

Maximian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 03 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 404.
Feast Day: Oct 3

A convert from Donatism, he became Bishop of Bagaia in Numidia in North Africa. Having deprived the Donatists of the basilica of Calvianum, he was grievously wounded and thrown off a tower by them.

Martial, Laurence and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Sept 28

A group of twenty-two martyrs in North Africa.

Candida

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 300.
Feast Day: Sept 20

A virgin-martyr in Carthage in North Africa under Maximian Herculeus.

Cyprian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 200-258.
Feast Day: Sept 16

Thascius Cecilianus Cyprianus was born in North Africa. He became a lawyer, was converted to Orthodoxy and consecrated Bishop of Carthage in 248. He wrote numerous treatises on theological subjects, one of the most important being De Unitate Catholicae Ecclesiae, and wrote numerous letters. He is one of the greatest Fathers of the Church and he was a model of compassion, discretion and pastoral zeal. Cyprian went into hiding during the persecution of Decius but was arrested and beheaded under Valerian.

Crescentian, Victor, Rosula and Generalis

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 258.
Feast Day: Sept 14

Martyrs in North Africa who suffered at the same time and place as St Cyprian.

Marcellinus of Carthage

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: d. 413.
Feast Day: 13 September

A high imperial official (tribunus et notarius) under Emperor Honorius and a close friend of St Augustine, who dedicated the opening books of ‘The City of God’ to him. Sent to Africa in 411 to preside over the Council of Carthage resolving the Catholic-Donatist conflict, he ruled in favor of the Catholics. The Donatists then accused him and his brother Apringius of complicity with the usurper Heraclianus, and both were executed on 13 September 413 by Count Marinus, despite Augustine’s intervention on their behalf.

Nemesian, Felix, Lucius, another Felix, Litteus, Polyanus, Victor, Jader, Dativus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 257.
Feast Day: Sept 10

Nine bishops of Numidia in North Africa who with numerous other clergy and laypeople were condemned to slavery in the marble quarries of Sigum where they ended their lives. A letter of St Cyprian addressed to them still exists.

Donatian, Praesidius, Mansuetus, Germanus, Fusculus and Laetus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 06 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 5th century.
Feast Day: Sept 6

th century. Orthodox driven out of Africa into exile by Hunneric the Arian King of the Vandals. At that time the number of exiles reached nearly five thousand in a single year.

Priscus, Castrensis, Tammarus, Rosius, Heraclius, Secundinus, Adjutor, Mark, Augustus, Elpidius, Canion and Vindonius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 01 Sep 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 5th cent.
Feast Day: Sept 1

Priscus, a bishop in North Africa, and his priests were cast adrift in a boat by the Arian Vandals. They reached the south of Italy, where eventually Priscus became Bishop of Capua.

Monica

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 332-387.
Feast Day: Aug 27

Born in Carthage in North Africa of Christian parents, she married a pagan and had three children. Through her patience and gentleness she converted her husband and through her prayers and tears her wayward son, who became Blessed Augustine. She reposed in Ostia near Rome and her relics are preserved in Rome.

Martyrs of Massa Candida

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: d. 253 (some sources say 258).
Feast Day: 24 August

During the persecution of Valerian, the proconsul Galerius Maximus brought imprisoned Christians from Carthage to Utica, offering them a choice between being cast into a pit of burning lime or sacrificing to idols. Reportedly between 150 and 300 Christians, encouraged by their bishop Kodratos, chose the lime pit and died together; Kodratos himself was executed four days later. Because their remains formed one fused mass, they became known as the ‘White Mass’ or Massa Candida.

Victor of Vita

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 23 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 535.
Feast Day: Aug 23

Born in Carthage in North Africa, he was either bishop there or in Utica. He wrote a very important work in three books named “A History of the African Province Persecution, in the Times of Genseric and Huneric, the Kings of the Vandals” documenting the cruelty practiced against Orthodox Christians of Northern Africa by the Arian Vandals.

Quadratus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 21 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 3rd cent.
Feast Day: Aug 21

A Bishop of Utica in North Africa who taught both clergy and laity to confess Christ. They were all martyred. St Quadratus was greatly revered in Africa.

Liberatus, Boniface, Servus, Rusticus, Rogatus, Septimus and Maximus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 483.
Feast Day: Aug 17

Liberatus was abbot of a monastery in North Africa, the others were monks: Boniface, a deacon, Servus and Rusticus, sub-deacons, Rogatus and Septimus, monks, and Maximus, a child educated in the monastery. All were martyred under the Arian King Hunneric.

Alipius (Alypius)

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 15 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 430.
Feast Day: Aug 15

A disciple and lifelong friend of St. Augustine, he was also baptised in Milan on Easter Eve 387. On his return to Africa he lived as a hermit. St Alipius then visited Palestine and in about 393 he became Bishop of Tagaste in North Africa.

Numidicus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 09 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 251.
Feast Day: Aug 9

A group of martyrs burnt at the stake at Carthage in North Africa under Decius. Numidicus was dragged still breathing out of the ashes of the funeral pyre and was ordained priest by St Cyprian.

Rutilius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 02 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 250.
Feast Day: Aug 2

Born in North Africa. During the persecution of Decius he fled from place to place, but he was finally arrested, bravely confessed Christ and was martyred.

Fabius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 300.
Feast Day: July 31

A soldier beheaded in Caesarea in Mauretania in North Africa under Diocletian for refusing to carry a standard bearing idolatrous emblems.

Firmus of Tagaste

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: July 31

Bishop of Tagaste in North Africa, he was tortured and endured terrible sufferings rather than betray the hiding-place of one of his flock.

Epenetus of Carthage

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: d. 64.
Feast Day: 30 July

One of the Seventy Apostles and a disciple of the Savior, Epenetus was made bishop at Carthage, establishing one of the earliest episcopal sees in North Africa and considered a foundational figure in North African Christianity. In his Epistle to the Romans, the Apostle Paul greets Epenetus as ’the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ’ (Rom. 16:5).

Maxima, Donatilla and Secunda

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 304.
Feast Day: July 30

Three holy virgins (Secunda was aged twelve), martyred in Tebourba in North Africa under Diocletian.

Victor I

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 198.
Feast Day: July 28

Born in North Africa, he was Pope of Rome for ten years (189-198).

His Entry in Liber Pontificalis (Book of the Popes):

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[1] Victor, natione Afer, ex patre Felice, sedit ann. X m. II d. X. Fuit autem temporibus Cesaris, a consulatu Commodi II et Grauione (186) usque ad Laterano et Rufino (197).

[2] Hic constituit ut sanctum Pascha die dominico celebraretur, sicut Eleuther. Hic fecit sequentes cleros. Martyrio coronatur. Et constituit ut, necessitate faciente, ut ubiubi inuentus fuisset, siue in flumine, siue in mari, siue in fontibus, tantum christiano confessione credulitatis clarificata, quicumque hominum ex gentile ueniens ut baptizaretur.

Cucuphas (Cucufate, Cugat, Guinefort, Qoqofas)

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 25 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 304.
Feast Day: July 25

Born in North Africa, he went to Spain and was martyred near Barcelona where the monastery of St Cugat del Valles was later founded. He is one of the most famous Spanish martyrs.

Aurelius of Carthage

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: d. c. 429-430.
Feast Day: 20 July

Archdeacon of Carthage who became Archbishop of Carthage in 388, holding jurisdiction over the metropolitans of Roman Africa. A close associate of St Augustine, he presided over the plenary councils of the African Church, worked to reconcile repentant Donatists, and was among the first to unmask and formally condemn Pelagianism, notably excommunicating Celestius in 412 and condemning Pelagius and Celestius together in 416.

Gundenis

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 203.
Feast Day: July 18

A virgin-martyred in Carthage in North Africa under Septimius Severus.

Scillitan Martyrs

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 180.
Feast Day: July 17

Twelve martyrs, seven men and five women, who suffered at Scillium in North Africa under Septimius Severus. Their names are: Speratus, Narzales, Cythinus, Veturius, Felix, Acyllinus, Laetantius, Januaria, Generosa, Vestina, Donata and Secunda. The official Acts of these martyrs still exist.

Text of The Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs:

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Acta Martyrum Scillitanorum:

[1] Praesente bis et Condiano consulibus, XVI Kalendas augustas, Karthagine in secretario inpositis Sperato, Nartzalo et Cittino, Donata, Secunda, Vestia, Saturninus proconsul dixit: “Potestis indulgentiam domini nostri imperatoris promereri, si ad bonam mentem redeatis.”

Catulinus (Cartholinus), Januarius, Florentius, Julia and Justa

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 15 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: July 15

Martyrs in Carthage in North Africa.

Eugene, Salutaris, Muritta and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 13 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 505.
Feast Day: July 13

Eugene became Bishop of Carthage in North Africa in 481 but was soon afterwards expelled by the Arian Vandals with many of his flock, some of them mere boys. They were exiled to the desert of Tripoli, where they suffered greatly. In 488 they were allowed to return to Carthage, but Eugene was exiled again eight years later and reposed at Albi in Italy. All the above are considered to be martyrs because of their sufferings.

Januarius, Marinus, Nabor and Felix

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: July 10

Martyrs in North Africa.

Jucundian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 04 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 440.
Feast Day: July 4

A martyr in North Africa.

Namphamon and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 04 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: ~180
Feast Day: July 4

Of Carthaginian descent, he was martyred with several compatriots at Madaura in Numidia in North Africa and called ’the Archmartyr'.

Gaius and Leo

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: June 30

Martyrs either in North Africa or in Rome, Gaius was a priest and Leo a subdeacon.

Cyriacus and Apollinaris

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: June 21

Martyrs in North Africa.

Gregory, Demetrius and Calogerus of Fragalata

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 18 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 5th cent.
Feast Day: June 18

Respectively a bishop, an archdeacon and an abbot in North Africa, from where they were driven out by Arian Vandals. They settled in Fragalata near Messina in Sicily and preached the Gospel there. They are honoured as the patron-saints of Fragalata.

Augustine of Hippo

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: b. 354, d. 430.
Feast Day: 15 June

Born in Thagaste to a pagan father and Christian mother (St Monica), Augustine spent years under the influence of Manichaeism before his conversion and baptism by St Ambrose of Milan in 387. Ordained priest and later Bishop of Hippo (391-430), he wrote prolifically, including ‘The City of God’ and ‘Confessions,’ combating the Donatist, Manichaean, and Pelagian heresies. He died in 430 during the Vandal siege of Hippo, and is regarded as the towering theological figure of North African Christianity.

Fortunatus and Lucian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 13 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: June 13

Martyrs in North Africa.

Optatus of Milevis

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 04 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 387.
Feast Day: June 4

Bishop of Milevis in Numidia in North Africa. He opposed Donatism, writing six treatises against them which were praised by his contemporaries.

Caecilius (Caecilian)

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 03 Jun 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 3rd cent.
Feast Day: June 3

A priest in Carthage in North Africa who converted St Cyprian to Christ. St Cyprian never ceased to revere his name, adding it to his own, and on Caecilius’s repose, he looked after his wife and children.

[1] The sacred Tables of the Roman Martyrology, reviewed and augmented under Gregory XIII, on this third of June have these words: At Carthage, of St. Cæcilius the Presbyter, who led St. Cyprian to the faith of Christ. St. Jerome in his On Ecclesiastical Writers chapter 67, mentions both thus: Cyprian the African first gloriously taught Rhetoric: thereafter, at the persuasion of the Presbyter Cæcilius, from whom he also took his cognomen, having become a Christian, he disbursed all his substance to the poor; and after no long time, having been elected to the Presbyterate, he was also made Bishop of Carthage, etc.

Quintian, Lucius, Julian and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 23 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 430.
Feast Day: May 23

Three of a group of nineteen martyred in North Africa under the Arian Vandal King Hunneric.

Castus and Emilius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 22 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 250.
Feast Day: May 22

Two martyrs who suffered in North Africa under Decius. At first they gave way under torture, but then repented. On being arrested a second time they were burnt to death.

Julia

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 22 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 440.
Feast Day: May 22

Born in Carthage in North Africa, she was sold into slavery by the Vandal conquerors. The ship on which she was being taken to Gaul stopped in Corsica. At that time heathen festival was being celebrated and when Julia refused to join in, she was immediately martyred by being nailed to a cross. She is the patron-saint of Corsica.

Timothy, Polius and Eutychius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 21 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: May 21

Three deacons in Mauretania Caesariensis in North Africa martyred under Diocletian.

Restituta

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 17 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 255 (or 304).
Feast Day: May 17

A virgin-martyr in Carthage in North Africa under Valerian or Diocletian. Her relics are enshrined in Naples in Italy.

Felix and Gennadius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 16 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: May 16

Two martyrs venerated from ancient times in Uzalis in North Africa.

Possidius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 16 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 370-c 440.
Feast Day: May 16

Bishop of Calama in Numidia in North Africa, when he was driven out by Arian Vandals, reposing in Apulia in Italy. He opposed both Donatism and Pelagianism.

Victor the Moor

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 08 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 303.
Feast Day: May 8

A soldier from Mauritania in North Africa, martyred in Milan in Italy under Maximian.

Heliodorus, Venustus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 06 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 3rd cent..
Feast Day: May 6

rd cent. A group of seventy-seven martyrs who suffered under Diocletian. Heliodorus and seven others were martyred in North Africa, the others in Milan.

Vindemialis, Eugene and Longinus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 02 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 485.
Feast Day: May 2

Bishops in North Africa martyred by the Arian Vandal King Hunneric who inflicted horrible tortures on them.

Marianus, James and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 30 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 259.
Feast Day: Apr 30

Martyrs in Lambesa, an ancient town in Numidia in North Africa. Marianus was a reader and James a deacon.

Agapius and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 259.
Feast Day: Apr 29

Born in Spain, Agapius and Secundinus, bishops or priests, were exiled to Cirta in Numidia in North Africa in the persecution under Valerian. There they suffered martyrdom together with Tertulla and Antonia, virgins, and a certain woman with her twin children.

Agapius, Bishop, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Secundinus, Bishop, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Theodorus, Priest, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Marianus, Lector, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Jacobus, Deacon, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Aemilianus, soldier, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Tertulla, Virgin, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Antonia, Virgin, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Likewise a woman with two twins, Martyrs at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saints)Secundianus, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Concordius, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Florianus, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Gaber, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Gaianus, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Postumus, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Momminus, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Quintianus, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Cassius, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Fasilus, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Florentius, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Demetrius, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Gududus, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Crispinus, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Crispinus, another, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Donatus, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Zeon, Martyr at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saint) Many others, Martyrs at Cirta and Lambaesa in Numidia (Saints)

Fortunatus and Marcian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Apr 17

Martyrs, perhaps in Antioch, but more probably in North Africa.

Mappalicus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 250.
Feast Day: Apr 17

Martyrs in Carthage in North Africa under Decius.

Zeno

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 12 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 371.
Feast Day: April 12

Born in North Africa, he became Bishop of Verona in Italy at the time of Julian the Apostate. He was remembered as a fervent pastor and a fierce opponent of Arianism.

Zeno was elected Bishop of Verona around 362. His legend praises his care for the poor and the sick. According to tradition, Zeno supported himself by fishing in the Adige (Etsch) river. This is how the messengers of Emperor Gallienus found him, when they came asking him to heal through prayer the emperor’s daughter, who was possessed.

Terence, Africanus, Pompeius and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 250.
Feast Day: Apr 10

A group of fifty martyrs, imprisoned with snakes and scorpions and finally beheaded in Carthage in North Africa under Decius.

Masyla Martyrs

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 09 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: Unknown.
Feast Day: Apr 9

A group of Christians martyred in Masyla. Two hundred and twenty Christians martyred on this day.

Concessa

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 08 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Apr 8

A martyr venerated from early times in Carthage in North Africa.

Januarius, Maxima and Macaria

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 08 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Apr 8

Martyrs in North Africa.

Epiphanius, Donatus, Rufinus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Apr 7

Thirteen martyrs, of whom Epiphanius was a bishop in North Africa.

Marcellinus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 413.
Feast Day: Apr 6

Marcellinus was the imperial representative in North Africa at the time of the Donatist heresy. He and his brother, the judge Agrarius, tried to enforce the decisions of a conference in Carthage against Donatism, but the Donatists resorted to false accusation and the two brothers were martyred.

Easter liturgy Martyrs

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 459.
Feast Day: Apr 5

A large group martyred at the Easter liturgy by Genseric, the Arian King of the Vandals. The reader who was singing the Alleluia had his throat pierced by an arrow.

Quadrus, Successus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: March 28

A group of eighteen martyrs in North Africa.

Rogatus, Successus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: March 28

A group of eighteen martyrs in North Africa.

Felix and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 5th cent..
Feast Day: March 23

th cent. A group of twenty-one martyrs in North Africa.

Victorian, Frumentius and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 484.
Feast Day: March 23

Victorian, a former pro-consul in Africa, and four wealthy merchants were martyred in Hadrumetum under King Hunneric for refusing to become Arians.

Deogratias

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 457.
Feast Day: March 22

He became Bishop of Carthage in North Africa in 456, fourteen years after the repose of his predecessor, St Quodvultdeus, who had been driven into exile by the Arian Vandals. He sold all that he or his church possessed in order to ransom prisoners of the Arian King.

St Victor of Vita in his History of Vandal Persecution wrote this of him: “After these things had taken place, the supplication of the emperor Valentinian brought it about that, after the long silence of desolation, a bishop named Deogratias was ordained for the church at Carthage. If anyone tried to itemize what the Lord did through him, he would run out of words before he could explain anything. But, after he had been made bishop, because of our sins it came to pass that Geiseric, in the ftfteenth year of his reign, seized Rome, the city until then most noble and renowned. At that time he took into captivity the wealth of many kings, as well as people.”

Octavian and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 484.
Feast Day: March 22

Octavian, Archdeacon of the Church in Carthage in North Africa, was martyred with several thousand companions under the Arian Vandal King Hunneric.

Saturninus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: March 22

A group of ten martyrs in North Africa.

Peter and Aphrodisius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 5th cent.
Feast Day: March 14

Martyrs under the Arian Vandals in North Africa.

Maximilian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 295.
Feast Day: March 12

A young martyr who refused to do military service and was therefore executed in Thebeste in Numidia in North Africa.

Candidus, Piperion and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 254-259.
Feast Day: March 11

Twenty-two martyrs who suffered in North Africa either in Carthage or else in Alexandria, probably under Valerian and Gallienus.

Constantine

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: March 11

A confessor in Carthage in North Africa.

Heraclius and Zosimus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 263.
Feast Day: March 11

Martyrs in North Africa who suffered in Carthage under Valerian and Gallienus.

Victor

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 10 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: March 10

A martyr in North Africa under Decius.

Cyril, Rogatus, Felix, another Rogatus, Beata, Herenia, Felicitas, Urban, Silvanus and Mamillus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: March 8

Martyrs in North Africa. St Cyril is described as a bishop.

Pontius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 260.
Feast Day: March 8

A deacon of the Church of Carthage in North Africa. He was with St Cyprian in his exile, at his trial and execution, and wrote his Life.

Perpetua, Felicity, Saturus (Satyrus), Saturninus, Revocatus and Secundulus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 07 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 203.
Feast Day: March 7

Vivia Perpetua was a young married woman of good social position. Felicity, also married, was a slave. The others were catechumens and Saturus perhaps their instructor. All were imprisoned together in Carthage in North Africa as a law of Septimus Severus forbade conversions to the faith. Secundulus died in prison: the others were thrown to the wild beasts in the amphitheatre on March 7. Their Acts were written by Saturus, one of the martyrs, and completed by an eyewitness.

Eusebius and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 05 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: March 5

A group of ten martyrs who suffered in North Africa.

Felix, Luciolus, Fortunatus, Marcia and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 03 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: March 3

A group of forty martyrs in North Africa.

Hermes, Adrian and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 290.
Feast Day: March 1

Martyrs in Numidia in North Africa under Maximian Herculeus.

Leo, Donatus, Abundantius, Nicephorus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: March 1

A group of thirteen martyrs who laid down their lives for Christ in North Africa.

Donatus, Justus, Herena and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 3rd cent..
Feast Day: Feb 25

rd cent. A group of fifty martyrs who suffered in North Africa under Decius.

Montanus, Lucius, Julian, Victoricus, Flavian and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 24 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 259.
Feast Day: Feb 24

A group of ten martyrs in North Africa, disciples of St Cyprian of Carthage, who suffered in that city under Valerian. The story of their imprisonment was told by themselves and that of their martyrdom by eyewitnesses.

Alexander of Adrumetum

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 434.
Feast Day: Feb 21

Martyred with others in North Africa.

Felix of Hadrumetum

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: d. c. 434.
Feast Day: 21 February

Bishop of Hadrumetum who was martyred circa 434 during the Arian Vandal persecution under King Genseric for refusing to abandon the Nicene confession of Christ’s divinity.

Verulus, Secundinus, Siricius, Felix, Servulus, Saturninus, Fortunatus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 434.
Feast Day: Feb 21

Martyrs in North Africa, probably under the Vandals. Hadrumetum is given as the place of their martyrdom and their number as twenty-six.

Verulus, Martyr, at Hadrumetum in Africa

Secundinus, Martyr, at Hadrumetum in Africa

Siricius, Martyr, at Hadrumetum in Africa

Felix, Martyr, at Hadrumetum in Africa

Servulus, Martyr, at Hadrumetum in Africa

Saturninus, Martyr, at Hadrumetum in Africa

Fortunatus, Martyr, at Hadrumetum in Africa

Jocundus, Martyr, at Hadrumetum in Africa

Julian, Martyr, at Hadrumetum in Africa

Alexander, Martyr, at Hadrumetum in Africa

Another 16 Martyrs, at Hadrumetum in Africa

By the author G. H.

Publius, Julian, Marcellus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 19 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Feb 19

Martyrs in North Africa.

Quodvultdeus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 19 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 450.
Feast Day: Feb 19

Bishop of Carthage in North Africa, exiled by the Arian Genseric King of the Vandals, after the capture of the city in 439. He reposed in Naples in Italy.

St Victor of Vita in his History of Vandal Persecution wrote of Quodvultdeus and his exile thus: “But then he [Gaiseric] ordered that the bishop of the aforementioned city, that is, Carthage, a person well known to God and man, whose name was Quodvultdeus, and a great throng of the clergy, were to be placed naked on dangerous ships. Having been despoiled, they were to be driven away. In his merciful goodness the Lord graciously brought them to Naples, a town in Campania, after a safe passage.”

Lucius, Silvanus, Rutulus, Classicus, Secundinus, Fructulus and Maximus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 18 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Feb 18

Martyrs in North Africa.

Modestus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 12 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 2nd century.
Feast Day: Feb 12

Modestus was martyred in Carthage in North Africa and venerated as the patron-saint of Cartagena in Spain.

Guardians of the Holy Scriptures

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 11 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 303.
Feast Day: Feb 11

Martyrs known as the ‘Guardians of the Holy Scriptures’. They preferred martyrdom to giving up the sacred books to be burnt. They suffered under Diocletian.

Saturninus, Dativus, Felix, Ampelius, Victoria and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 11 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 304.
Feast Day: Feb 11

A group of forty-six martyrs in Albitina in North Africa. They were arrested at the liturgy and sent to Carthage for examination. Saturninus was a priest, and with him suffered his four children, Saturninus and Felix, readers, Mary, a virgin, and Hilarion, a young child. Dativus and another Felix were senators. Other names from this group which have come down to us are: Thelica, Ampelius, Emeritus, Rogatian and Victoria, a holy virgin of undaunted courage. The child Hilarion, when threatened by the magistrates while his companions were being tortured, replied: ‘Yes, torture me too; anyhow, I am a Christian’. They all died in prison.

Primus and Donatus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 09 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 362.
Feast Day: Feb 9

Two deacons in Lavallum in North Africa martyred by Donatists.

Celerinus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 03 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 250.
Feast Day: Feb 3

Born in North Africa, he earned the title of martyr on account of the sufferings he endured under Decius during a visit to Rome. Freed, he returned to Carthage, where he was ordained deacon and later a church was dedicated to him.

Felix, Symphronius (Sempronius), Hippolytus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 03 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Feb 3

A group of martyrs in North Africa.

Laurentinus, Ignatius and Celerina

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 03 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 3rd cent..
Feast Day: Feb 3

rd cent. Martyrs in North Africa. Sts Laurentinus and Ignatius were uncles and St Celerina was an aunt of the deacon St Celerinus.

Felician, Philappian and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Jan 30

A group of one hundred and twenty-six martyrs in North Africa.

Datius, Reatrus (Restius) and Companions, and Datius (Dativus), Julian, Vincent and 27 Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c. 500.
Feast Day: Jan 27

Two groups of martyrs in North Africa; the second group suffered under the Arian Vandals.

Exuperantius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Mon, 24 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 5th cent..
Feast Day: Jan 24

th cent. Born in North Africa, he became Bishop of Cingoli near Ancona in Italy.

Severian and Aquila

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 23 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Jan 23

A husband and wife martyred in Julia Caesarea in Mauritania in North Africa

Vincent of Digne

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 380.
Feast Day: Jan 22

Born in North Africa, he succeeded St Domninus as Bishop of Digne in France and is the main patron-saint of the town.

Paul, Gerontius, Januarius, Saturninus, Successus, Julius, Catus, Pia and Germana

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 2nd cent.
Feast Day: Jan 19

Martyrs in Numidia in North Africa.

Eugyppius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 15 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 535.
Feast Day: Jan 15

Born in North Africa, he was ordained priest at Rome and was a companion of St Severinus of Noricum in Austria, whose Life he wrote.

Euphrasius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Jan 14

A bishop martyred in North Africa by the Arian Vandals.

Arcadius of Mauretania

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: d. c. 302.
Feast Day: 12 January

A prominent citizen of Caesarea in Mauretania Caesariensis who, when soldiers arrested a relative in his place, voluntarily presented himself to the governor to secure the relative’s release and was martyred under Maximianus Herculeus circa 302.

Mertius of Mauretania

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: d. 305.
Feast Day: 12 January

A soldier who suffered for Christ in Africa under Diocletian. Refusing to sacrifice to idols, he was tortured without making a sound, then imprisoned, where he died of hunger and his wounds.

Zoticus, Rogatus, Modestus, Castulus and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Jan 12

Saints:

Zoticus, Martyr in Africa

Biccianus, Martyr in Africa

Caroticus, Martyr in Africa

Castulinus, Martyr in Africa

Thirty-six companions, Martyrs in Africa Castulus, Martyr in Africa

Modestus, Martyr in Africa

Quinctus, Martyr in Africa

Rogatus, Martyr in Africa

Concerning these the Roman Martyrology says: “In Africa, of the Holy Martyrs Zoticus, Rogatus, Modestus, Castulus, and a company of forty soldiers.” Baronius acknowledges that he restored their names to the sacred Calendar from an ancient manuscript, and testifies that their Acts are in his possession, which we have not yet seen. The Martyrology of St. Jerome: “In Africa, of Zoticus, Castolus, Quinctus, Rogatus, Modestus, Biccianus, Caroticus, Castolinus.” The Rhinau manuscript: “In Africa, of Zoticus, Castolus, Quintus, Rogatus, Modestus.” The Dungal manuscript makes mention of Quinctus, Rogatus, Modestus, Ebicianus (who is undoubtedly the same as Biccianus), Corotis (who seems to be Coroticus), Castolinus (in addition to Castulus listed among the Egyptians), Valentiana, Arabicus, and eighteen others. We have already noted that it is doubtful whether one of these is the Aventinus or Aventina listed among the Egyptians. For that manuscript assigns no locations.

Salsa of Tipasa

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 4th cent
Feast Day: Jan 11

A martyr in North Africa.

Salvius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: unknown / date uncertain.
Feast Day: Jan 11

A martyr in North Africa.

Typasius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: d. 304.
Feast Day: 11 January

A retired veteran soldier from Tigava who, after becoming a Christian, refused to be recalled to active duty and lived as a monk. Later summoned again for military service and ordered to sacrifice to Roman gods, he refused; his military belt and spears miraculously broke when soldiers tried to force them on him. He was beheaded on 11 January 304 after refusing to recant.

Adrian

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 09 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: d. 710.
Feast Day: Jan 9

An African by birth, Adrian became a monk and eventually abbot of Nerida, near Naples. On the death of Deusdedit, archbishop of Canterbury, in 664 and of his replacement Wighard in 665, Pope Vitalian wished to appoint Adrian to Canterbury. He, however, refused, but suggested the nomination of Theodore instead. This was agreed, but the pope asked Adrian to accompany Theodore to be his adviser and helper.

Epictetus, Jucundus, Secundus, Vitalis, Felix and Companions

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 09 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: Unknown.
Feast Day: Jan 9

Twelve martyrs in North Africa, who probably suffered under Decian. Epictetus was a bishop mentioned by St Cyprian.

Marciana

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sun, 09 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 303.
Feast Day: Jan 9

The virgin Marciana saw in Caesarea the statue of Diana, and she destroyed it. She was first condemned by the governor to be raped by gladiators, but a miraculous wall protected her. Then she was sent to the beasts. A lion did not want to attack her. The Jews, present at the occasion, demanded that she was given to a bull, and then to a leopard, which finally killed her.

Martyrs under Septimius Severus

you@example.com (Your Name) — Thu, 06 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: c 210.
Feast Day: Jan 6

A number of Christians of both sexes burnt at the stake under Septimius Severus.

Mavilus (Majulus)

you@example.com (Your Name) — Tue, 04 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 212.
Feast Day: Jan 4

A martyr in Hadrumetum in North Africa, thrown to wild beasts at the time of Caracalla.

Fulgentius

you@example.com (Your Name) — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Year: 532.
Feast Day: Jan 1

Born in North Africa, he became a monk early in life and was elected abbot. He had to flee from the Vandal persecution. In 502 or 507 he was chosen Bishop of Ruspe but was again exiled by the Vandals. He spent his exile in Sardinia where he wrote numerous works which still exist. He returned to Africa in 523.