Monk on The African Fathers

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.

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.

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.

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.