Name
Laetus, bishop and martyr of Nepte under the Vandals, ob. 484
Saint ID
S02837
Reported Death Not Before
484
Reported Death Not After
484
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Bishops
| ID | Title | 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. | E08294 | Victor of Vita, in his History of the Vandal Persecution (Book 2), recounts the suffering of African *Martyrs and Confessors under the Vandal king Huneric (S03008), in 477-484. Written in Latin, probably in Carthage, 484/489. | E08297 | Victor of Tunnuna, in his Chronicle, recounts how Justinian responded to a visionary visitation by *Laetus (bishop and martyr of Nepte, S02837), who had been killed by the Vandal king Huneric, by sending an army under Belisarius against Vandal Africa; supposedly in 534. Written in Latin in Constantinople, 565/566. |
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