Martinian of Africa

Who they were

The commemoration of Saints Martinian and Saturian, martyrs in Africa, together with two of their brothers, who, at the time of the Vandal persecution carried out under the Arian king Genseric, being the slaves of a Vandal, had been brought to faith in Christ by Saint Maxima, a virgin and their fellow slave, and, after being beaten with heavy clubs and torn to the bone for their firmness in the right faith, were at last banished into exile among the Moors, where they were condemned to death for having led some to faith in Christ; Maxima, however, set free after coming through many struggles, fell asleep in holiness in a monastery, where she had become the mother of many virgins.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 16 October as a slave in Africa who was beaten and exiled among the Moors under the Arian king Genseric and put to death for leading others to faith in Christ.