Dativa

Holy Martyr Dativa suffered in North Africa in the year 484, in the persecution of the Arian Vandal king Huneric. She was the sister of Saint Dionysia, a courageous woman who was tortured naked before the crowd and who strengthened others for martyrdom; her son, Majoricus, also died a martyr. Dativa was among those won for God through Dionysia in their town.

The story has come down to us from Victor of Vita, the fifth-⁠century African bishop, in his history of the persecution in the time of the kings Genseric and Huneric. The saint is commemorated on 6 December in the Roman Martyrology and is counted a saint of the undivided Church.