Majoricus of Africa

Majoricus of Africa was a young martyr of the Vandal persecution in Africa, the son of Saint Dionysia. The Roman Martyrology commemorates him on 6 December and says that, being still very young and fearing the torments, he was strengthened by the look and words of his mother; becoming stronger than the rest, he died in torments. His mother took him in her arms, buried him in her own house and was accustomed to pray constantly at his grave. The same day recalls, under the Arian king Huneric, the holy women Dionysia, Dativa and Leontia and others, who came to rank among the confessors of Christ. The date is the Western one, new style. A saint of the undivided Church, venerated chiefly in the West.