Saturus

Holy Martyr Saturus was a Christian of Carthage, martyred on 7 March 203, together with Saints Perpetua and Felicitas.

He was the first of them to become a Christian and taught the faith to Perpetua, Secundulus, Saturninus, Revocatus and Felicitas, baptizing them shortly before their arrest. In the Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas, the chapters that tell the visions in prison are said to be written by himself. In the amphitheatre he was made to put on the robe of the priests of Saturn; a boar meant for him killed a Roman guard, and the bear let loose on him would not come out of its cage. He died bitten by a leopard, bleeding. He is commemorated on 7 March, as a saint of the undivided Church, honoured in the East as well.