Twelve Holy Brothers

The Twelve Holy Brothers are, according to tradition, children of Saints Boniface and Thecla of Africa. The relics of several groups of martyrs who had suffered in the south of Italy were brought together and enshrined at Benevento in 760; these groups make up the "twelve brothers": Arontius, Honoratus, Fortunatus and Sabinian at Potenza (27 August); Septiminus, Januarius and Felix at Venosa (28 August); Vitalis, Satyrus and Repositus at Velleianum (29 August); and Donatus and a second Felix at Sentianum (1 September). They suffered around the year 303. They are saints of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

Their commemoration falls on 1 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 14 September of the civil calendar.