Saint Saturus of Africa

Memorial

• 29 March

Profile

Wealthy master of the household of the anti-Christian Arian and then pagan Vandal king Genseric. When Genseric cracked down on the faithful, he tortured Saturus and threatened him with complete poverty and loss of his family and freedom. Saturus refused to deny his faith. Genseric, not wanting to create another martyr for Christians to rally around, stripped him of everything, and Saturus lived out his days as a poor but prayerful miner and cowherd. Friend of and fellow-sufferer with Saint Armogastes of Africa.

Died

• some time after 460 of natural causes near Carthage, North Africa

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against poverty
• poor people

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Saturus of Africa“. Saints.SQPN.com. 24 March 2013. Web. 24 May 2013. <>