12 Christians Executed at Scillium: First African Martyrs
Twelve people refused to sacrifice to Roman gods. That's it. That's what got them killed in Scillium, North Africa, on July 17, 180 AD. The proconsul Saturninus offered them thirty days to reconsider. They said no immediately. We know their names: Speratus, Nartzalus, Cittinus, Veturius, Felix, Aquilinus, Laetantius, Januaria, Generosa, Vestia, Donata, Secunda. Their trial transcript survived—the oldest proof Christianity had reached Roman Africa. Twelve executions became a religion's birth certificate for an entire continent.
July 17, 180
1846 years ago
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