For other uses, see Aemilianus (disambiguation).
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 (477-484 AD), he became emmired in the Arian persecution in Africa. When he would not convert to Arianism he was put to death by being flayed alive.[2] The Roman church celebrates his memory on December 6, the Greek church on December 7.[3][4][5]
References[]
- ↑ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Aemilianus (4)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, pp. 30, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0039.html
- ↑ Englebert, Omer (1994). The Lives of the Saints. Barnes & Noble Publishing. pp. 465. ISBN 1-56619-516-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=gOHxVfJFitoC&pg=PA465&lpg=PA465&dq=huneric+aemilianus&source=web&ots=Q1jeXUIzA7&sig=o9ygpzY9rYQ5TcejFtsFNLxIanI.
- ↑ Martyrol. Rom. ed. Baron.
- ↑ Victor Vitensis, De Persecut. Vandal, v. 1, with Ruinart's notes, Paris. 8vo. 1694
- ↑ Bzovius, Nomendator Sanctorum Professione Medicorum
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
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