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Martyr

Miggin

One of the first martyrs of Africa, slain at Madaura in Numidia around 180.

Feast
December 18old style December 31
Reposed
1802nd century
Place
Madaura
Order
Martyrs

Life

Miggin was one of the first martyrs of Africa, put to death at Madaura in Numidia around 180.

His name is commemorated on 18 December in the Roman Martyrology with those of Namphamo, Sanae and Lucitas: martyrs of Africa whom the Christian people greatly venerated, as Maximus of Madauros, a pagan, testifies in a letter to Blessed Augustine. No account of their lives or deaths survives.

Commemorated the same day December 18