Martyr
Namphamo
One of the first martyrs of Africa, slain at Madaura in Numidia together with Miggin, Sanae and Lucitas.
- Feast
- December 18old style December 31
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Madauros, Numidia
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Namphamo was one of the first martyrs of Africa, put to death at Madaura in Numidia together with Miggin, Sanae and Lucitas.
The Roman Martyrology commemorates Namphamo, Miggin, Sanae and Lucitas on 18 December, as 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
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Gatianus of ToursSaint · First Bishop of ToursDec 18
Winibald of HeidenheimVenerable · Abbot of HeidenheimDec 18
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