Fusculus of Africa

Fusculus of Africa was a bishop in Roman Africa and a confessor of the faith under the Arian Vandal king Huneric. The Roman Martyrology commemorates him on 6 September with the bishops Donatian, Praesidius, Mansuetus and Germanus: all were cruelly scourged and sent into exile by order of the king, because they proclaimed the Catholic truth. Among them was also the bishop Laetus, burned alive after a long imprisonment in a loathsome dungeon. Of Fusculus only the name and the confession are known. The date is that of the Western calendar (new style). He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated chiefly in the West.