Saint Armogastes of Africa

Also known as

• Archmimus of Africa

Memorial

• 29 March

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Servant of Theodoric, son of the Arian Vandal King Genseric. After Genseric renounced his Christianity and returned to his roots as a violent pagan, he demanded that Armogastes also renounce his faith. When the servant refused, he was tortured, enslaved in the mines of Byzacena, and then lived out the rest of his life as a prayerful cow-herd near Carthage. Genseric would not permit Armogastes to be killed so that he could deprive him of being a martyr.

Died

• sometime after 460 of natural causes near Carthage, North Africa

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against poverty
• against torture
• poor people
• torture victims

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Armogastes of Africa”. Saints.SQPN.com. 28 March 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-armogastes-of-africa/>