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Martyr

Lucitas

A martyr of Madaura in Numidia who suffered with Namphamo and Sanae, commemorated in the Roman Martyrology.

Feast
December 18old style December 31
Era
unknown
Place
Madauros, Numidia
Order
Martyrs

Life

Lucitas was a martyr of Madaura in Numidia, put to death with Namphamo and Sanae, among the first martyrs of Africa.

The Roman Martyrology commemorates him on 18 December, beside Namphamo, Miggin and Sanae, as a martyr greatly venerated by the Christian people, as the pagan Maximus of Madauros testifies in a letter to Blessed Augustine. No account of his life or death survives.

Commemorated the same day December 18