Saint Aemilianus
Saint Aemilius
Bornc. 5th century
Died484
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church,
Eastern Orthodox Church
CanonizedPre-Congregation
Feast6 December (Catholicism)
7 December (Orthodoxy)

Saint Aemilianus (or Aemilius) lived in the 5th century AD, and is known as a physician, confessor, and martyr.[1] In the reign of the Arian Vandal King Huneric, he became emmired in the Arian persecution in Africa. When he resisted conversion to Arianism, he was put to death by being flayed alive.[2]

Aemilianus' feast day is celebrated on December 6 in Roman Catholicism, and on December 7 in Eastern Orthodoxy.[3][4][5]

References

  1. Greenhill, William Alexander (1867). "Aemilianus (4)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston. p. 30.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. Englebert, Omer (1994). The Lives of the Saints. Barnes & Noble Publishing. p. 465. ISBN 1-56619-516-0.
  3. Martyrol. Rom. ed. Baron.
  4. Victor Vitensis, De Persecut. Vandal, v. 1, with Ruinart's notes, Paris. 8vo. 1694
  5. Bzovius, Nomenclator Sanctorum Professione Medicorum

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aemilianus (4)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

|Feast_day:St Aemilianus, martyr of Mesia is on July 18, according to the Roman martyrology.

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