Massa Candida

Also known as: White Company
Memorial: 24 August
Profile: Three hundred 3rd century Christians at Carthage who were ordered to burn incense to Jupiter or face death by fire. Martyrs. Saint Augustine and the poet Prudentius wrote about them.
Died: jumped into a pit of burning lime c.253 at Carthage, North Africa
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Additional Information: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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