Name
African confessors whose tongues were cut out by the Vandals
Saint ID
S01481
Reported Death Not Before
484
Reported Death Not After
550
GenderMale
Male
Female
Type of Saint
"Confessors"
| ID | Title | E03599 | Marcellinus Comes, in his Chronicle, records that *African confessors whose tongues were cut out by the Vandals (S01481) in 484 were miraculously still able to speak, and states that he had personally witnessed this. Written in Latin in Constantinople, 518/534. | E04383 | Gregory the Great writes the Dialogues, recounting miraculous stories with various local saints as their subject. Written in Latin in Rome, c. 593. Overview entry. | E07832 | Gregory the Great, in his Dialogues (3.32), describes how *African confessors, whose tongues were cut out by the Vandals (S01481) in North Africa, were miraculously still able to speak. Written in Latin in Rome, c. 593. | E07833 | A law of the emperor Justinian of 534, mentions that *African confessors whose tongues were cut out by the Vandals (S01481) were miraculously still able to speak. Codex Iustinianus 1.27.1.4, written in Latin in Constantinople. | E07834 | Victor of Tunnuna, in his Chronicle, describes how *African confessors whose tongues were cut out by the Vandals (S01481) under King Huneric in 484 were miraculously still able to speak. He mentions other oppressive actions by Huneric, including the martyrdom of *Laetus (bishop and martyr of Nepte, ob. 484, S02837) and the ill-treatment of *Eugenius (bishop of Carthage exiled to Albi in Gaul, S00334). Written in Latin in Constantinople, 565/566. | E07835 | Victor of Tunnuna, in his Chronicle, states that an African bishop exiled to Constantinople was buried in 565 next to the tombs there of the *African confessors whose tongues were cut out by the Vandals (S01481). Written in Latin in Constantinople, 565/566. | E07838 | In Aeneas of Gaza's Theophrastus, a philosophical/theological dialogue, a character refers to the *African confessors whose tongues were cut out by the Vandals (S01481), and claims that he had examined their mouths to confirm this. Written in Greek, probably in Gaza, 485/510. | E08252 | Procopius of Caesarea, in his Wars, records that *African confessors whose tongues were cut out by the Vandals (S01481) during the reign of Huneric (477-484), were miraculously still able to speak, and that some of them had been living in Constantinople up to his own time. Written in Greek in Constantinople, 545/551. | E08295 | Victor of Vita, in his History of the Vandal Persecution (Book 3), recounts the suffering of African *Martyrs and Confessors, victims of the 484 persecution edict of the Vandal king Huneric (S03009). Written in Latin, probably in Carthage, 484/489. | E08296 | Victor of Vita, in his History of the Vandal Persecution (Book 3.30), recounts how *African Confessors (S01481) of Tipasa (Mauretania Caesariensis, western North Africa) had their hands cut off and tongues cut out on the order of the Vandal king Huneric in 484, but were still able to speak, as manifested by one of them in Constantinople. Written in Latin, probably in Carthage (central North Africa), 484/489. |
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