Martyr
Fructus
Martyr of Africa
A martyr in Africa, remembered in the ancient martyrologies of the Church.
Life
Holy Martyr Fructus is named among the martyrs of Africa who suffered in the persecution of the emperor Decius, around the year 250, as a companion of Mappalicus. The sources keep no further details of his life. The old martyrologies commemorate the group on 19 April in the Western calendar; he is counted a saint of the undivided Church, honoured without synodal canonization.
Commemorated the same day April 19
ExpeditusMartyr · Centurion of MeliteneApr 19
Alphege of CanterburyHieromartyr · Archbishop of CanterburyApr 19
Tryphon of ConstantinopleSaint · Patriarch of ConstantinopleApr 19
Viktor OstrovidovConfessor · Bishop of Izhevsk and VotkinskApr 19
George the ConfessorSaint · Bishop of Antioch in PisidiaApr 19
John PalaiolavritesVenerableApr 19
Gerold of WalsertalVenerable · Hermit in VorarlbergApr 19- Agathangelos of EsphigmenouNew Martyr · Monk of EsphigmenouApr 19
- Agathangelus of SmyrnaVenerable MartyrApr 19
- Antoninus of NicomediaMartyrApr 19
- AristonicusMartyrApr 19
- BassusMartyr · Martyr of AfricaApr 19