Longinus of Pomaria

Longinus of Pomaria was bishop of Pomaria in Mauretania in the 5th century, and a defender of Catholic orthodoxy at the time of the conquest of Africa by the Arian Vandals under King Huneric. Very little is known about him. He took part in the council of Carthage of 484, where 458 African bishops condemned the heresy. The Roman Martyrology commemorates him on 2 May, in the same eulogy as Saint Vindemialis, bishop and martyr, and the bishop Eugenius, who fought the Arians by teaching and miracles. According to the text, Vindemialis was beheaded by order of Huneric. The date is the Western one, new style. A saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.