Catulinus

Saint Catulinus (also called Cartolinus), hieromartyr, was a deacon in Carthage and died a martyr in the year 303, at the beginning of Diocletian's persecution. He is commemorated on 15 July.

On the same day at Carthage other martyrs were also commemorated, among them Felix, bishop of Thibiuca, whose relics also lay in the church of Saint Faustus (the cathedral of Carthage), beside those of Saints Januarius, Florentius, Polyntana, Julia and Justa. Blessed Augustine dedicated a sermon to Catulinus, but according to Possidius, bishop of Calama, the text has not survived.

The scholar Hippolyte Delehaye, relying on the text of the Martyrdom of the bishop, judges that Catulinus and the others, whose relics were kept in the basilica of Saint Faustus, died in 303. D. V. Zaitsev notes that the name of Catulinus appears in the Martyrology attributed to Saint Jerome (Italic recension, first half of the fifth century) under 15 July together with other martyrs. Scholars have no news, however, whether there was any link between the deacon and the others, apart from their common burial place.