Maiulus

Holy Martyr Maiulus was a Christian of Hadrumetum in Africa, condemned to be torn by wild beasts; he lived at the end of the second century or in the third.

He is known because Tertullian speaks of him in the work To Scapula. The date of the martyrdom is uncertain, either before the year 196 or shortly before 212. Among the ruins of a basilica at Carthage an inscription with his name was found, among other saints. His veneration is very old: it appears in the Carthaginian calendar on 11 May and, on different dates, in the Hieronymian Martyrology. Caesar Baronius entered him in the Roman Martyrology on 4 January, and after the reform that followed the Second Vatican Council his commemoration was moved to 11 May.

He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured in the Catholic Church, without synodal canonization.