Marcellinus of Carthage

• 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.