Valerian Era on The African Fathers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

The most eminent Baronius in his Ecclesiastical Annals, at the year of Christ 262 no. 34, writes that among the butcheries of the whole province of Africa, carried out in the persecution of the Emperors Valerian and Gallienus, that one seems fiercer than the rest, which is found to have taken place in Numidia. That there exists, he says, concerning it an epistle written by one of those Confessors, already designated as a Martyr, who himself a fellow prisoner, composing chiefly the history of Jacobus the Deacon and Marianus the Lector, also makes mention of other Martyrs, namely of Agapius and Secundinus the Bishops, of Aemilianus a most illustrious man, of Tertulla and Antonia the Virgins, and of a certain mother with her twins, and of many others. As far as it is possible to conjecture from the style, the same Baronius says he seems to have been a disciple of Cyprian, whose diction he imitates somewhat in his writing; a noble monument of antiquity, recognized by us, and diligently corrected with great zeal applied (as much as was possible in matters so very ancient and in corrupted codices). This therefore, both for the remarkable knowledge of the matters transacted, and also that from those things which have been faithfully written down, we may be able to contemplate the other Acts of the Martyrs which have not been written or have perished through the injury of time, we judge it worth the labor to describe in the Annals. Thus Baronius. The same Acts Lawrence Surius published on this day, April 29: which we give again taken from four manuscript codices, namely from the Passional of the Cathedral Church of Saint Lambert at Liège, formerly of Saint Victor of Paris, written six hundred years ago; then from a perhaps older manuscript of the Trier monastery of Saint Maximinus; moreover from the notable parchment manuscript of the monastery of Boddeken, of the Order of Canons Regular of Saint Augustine in the diocese of Paderborn; finally from the Utrecht manuscript of Saint Salvator; except that the same Acts in the last two codices are more contracted.

https://www.actasanctorum.org/april/day-30/agapius-and-secundinus-bishops.html

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.

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.

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.