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Holy Martyrs

220 Martyrs of North Africa

Two hundred and twenty martyrs of north-⁠west Africa.

Feast
October 16old style October 29
Era
unknown
Place
North-⁠West Africa
Order
Martyrs

Life

The 220 Martyrs of North Africa (north-⁠west Africa) are two hundred and twenty Christians who were martyred on the same day. Our sources do not say when or in what manner they suffered, nor give their names. They are commemorated on 16 October, as saints of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day October 16