Saint Aemilianus Saint Aemilius | |
Birth Date: | c. 5th century |
Death Date: | 484 |
Feast Day: | 6 December (Catholicism) 7 December (Orthodoxy) |
Venerated In: | Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church |
Canonized Date: | Pre-Congregation |
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]
|Feast_day:St Aemilianus, martyr of Mesia is on July 18, according to the Roman martyrology.