Tertius

Holy Martyr Tertius suffered in North Africa in the year 484, in the persecution of the Arian Vandal king Huneric. He was a devout man, outstanding in his confession of the Holy Trinity, and belonged to the circle in which Saint Dionysia strengthened the faithful, beside Dativa, Leontia, the physician Emilian and Boniface of Sibida.

The story has come down to us from Victor of Vita, the fifth-⁠century African bishop, in his history of the persecution in the time of the kings Genseric and Huneric. The saint is commemorated on 6 December in the Roman Martyrology and is counted a saint of the undivided Church.