Holy Martyrs
Dionysia and Companions
Martyrs of North Africa, put to death around 484 in the Vandal persecution.
- Feast
- December 6old style December 19
- Reposed
- 4845th century
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Saints Dionysia and Companions, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilian, Boniface, Majoricus and Servus, suffered in North Africa around 484, under the Arian Vandal king Hunneric.
Dionysia, a widow, died at the stake with her little son, Majoricus, and her sister Dativa. Emilian, a doctor, and Tertius, a monk, were flayed alive; the fanatics devised terrible deaths for the others also. It is said that Dionysia encouraged her son to suffer martyrdom and buried him in her own house. They are saints of the undivided Church and are commemorated on 6 December (New Calendar).
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