Aemilia'nus
(who is also called
Aemilius) lived in the fifth century after Christ, and is known as a physician, confessor, and martyr.
In the reign of the Vandal King Hunneric (A. D. 477-484), during the Arian persecution in Africa, he was most cruelly put to death. The Romish church celebrates his memory on the sixth of December, the Greek church on the seventh. (
Martyrol. Rom. ed. Baron.; Victor Vitensis,
De Persecut. Vandal. 5.1, with Ruinart's notes, Paris. 8vo. 1694; Bzovius,
Nomenclator Sanctorum Professione Medicorum.)
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