Praesidius of Africa

Praesidius of Africa was a bishop in Roman Africa and a confessor of the faith under the Arian Vandal king Huneric. The Roman Martyrology commemorates him on 6 September with the bishops Donatian, Mansuetus, Germanus and Fusculus, cruelly scourged and sent into exile by order of the king for professing the Catholic truth. Among them was also the bishop Laetus, burned alive after a long imprisonment. Of Praesidius only the name and the confession are known. The date is the Western one, new style. A saint of the undivided Church, venerated chiefly in the West.