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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