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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Holy Venerable Martyrs

Liberatus

An abbot of Africa, slain by the Arian Vandals with his monks around 483.

Feast
August 17old style August 30
Reposed
4835th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Liberatus was abbot of a monastery in North Africa. Together with his monks, Boniface the deacon, Servus and Rusticus (subdeacons), Rogatus and Septimus, and the child Maximus, who was brought up in the monastery, he was put to death around the year 483 by the Arian Vandals under King Hunneric. The whole community suffered for the right faith. They are saints of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

Their commemoration falls on 17 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 30 August of the civil calendar.

Commemorated the same day August 17