Oct 292012
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DIONYSIA, DATIVA, LEONTIA, TERTIUS, AEMILIAN, BONIFACE and OTHERS (Saints) Martyrs (December 6) (6th century) African Martyrs (A.D. 505) under the Arian Vandal King Hunneric. Victor of Utica, in his History of the Persecution, gives a graphic account of the fearful ordeal these holy men and women went through. Dionysia, a widow, perished at the stake with her little child and her sister Dativa. AEmilian (or Emilius), a physician, and Tertius, a monk, were flayed alive. The fanatics seem to have amused themselves in devising strange forms of death for the rest of the heroic band.
MLA Citation
- Monks of Ramsgate. “Dionysia, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Aemilian, Boniface and Others”. Book of Saints, 1921. Saints.SQPN.com. 29 October 2012. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/book-of-saints-dionysia-dativa-leontia-tertius-aemilian-boniface-and-others/>