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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