Abbot on The African Fathers

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.

Gregory, Demetrius and Calogerus of Fragalata

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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.

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.

Theodore named him abbot of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, where he directed an important school, at which many future bishops and abbots were educated. Subjects taught included Greek as well as Latin, Scripture, computistics, theology, and Roman law. Students came from all parts of England and even from Ireland: Aldhelm thought that the education offered there exceeded anything then available in Ireland. Adrian worked at Canterbury for nearly forty years, far outliving Theodore.

He died on 9 January and was buried in his monastery. His body was found incorrupt in 1091, when architectural alterations made the translation of several Canterbury saints necessary. Among the miracles recorded of him then are several accomplished in favour of the boys who studied in the monastery and were in trouble with their masters.

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Fulgentius

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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.