Martyr
Aemilianus the Physician
Physician and confessor of Africa
Physician and confessor of Africa who died a martyr under the Arian Vandal king Huneric.
- Feast
- December 7old style December 20
- Reposed
- 4845th century
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Saint Aemilianus (also called Aemilius), martyr, was a physician and confessor in North Africa in the fifth century and died a martyr in the time of the Vandal king Huneric. He is commemorated on 7 December in the Orthodox Church, and on 6 December in the Catholic Church.
He lived under Vandal rule, the Vandals being Arians, in the reign of Huneric, from 477 to 484. The king launched a fierce persecution against the Orthodox Christians of Africa. Aemilianus was caught up in it and refused to accept Arianism.
For this he was put to death in torments, flayed alive. According to a Bulgarian source, he died in the year 484.
The sources at hand say nothing of other events of his life.
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