Saturninus, Dativus, Felix and Ampelius

The Holy Martyrs Saturninus, Dativus, Felix and Ampelius are four of the martyrs of Abitinae in proconsular Africa, put to death in the persecution of Diocletian, in the year 304. A group of forty-⁠nine Christians was found guilty of having celebrated Sunday worship, despite the emperor's edict forbidding Christian assemblies, under the priest Saturninus, while the local bishop, Fundanus, had handed over the scriptures to the authorities. They were arrested, sent to Carthage and tried on 12 February by the proconsul Anullinus. Among them was Dativus, a senator. The Orthodox calendar commemorates them on 11 February (new style), and the Latin calendar on 12 February, as Saturninus, Dativus, Felix, Ampelius, Victoria and their companions.