Rusticus of Carthage

Rusticus of Carthage was a subdeacon and martyr at Carthage under the Arian Vandal king Huneric, in 483 or 484, one of the seven brothers arrested with Abbot Liberatus. The others were the deacon Boniface, the subdeacon Servus, the monks Rogatus and Septimus and the young Maximus. Brought to Carthage, they were tortured to make them accept Arianism; when they refused, they were nailed to boards on a ship prepared for timber, and the ship was set on fire. The ship would not burn, so they were killed with blows of oars. He is commemorated on 2 July, in the Western calendar (new style). A saint of the undivided Church, venerated chiefly in the West.