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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Confessor

Dativus the Confessor

A confessor of the faith in Africa, remembered among the martyrs of Abitinae.

Feast
September 10old style September 23
Era
3rd century
Order
Confessors

Life

Dativus the Confessor is a confessor of the faith in Africa, remembered among the martyrs of Abitinae. One source shows him as a confessor in the mines of Africa, in the persecution of Valerian. He is commemorated on 10 September, by the Western calendar. The sources consulted give no other details about him.

Commemorated the same day September 10