St. Arcadius and Companions
Feastday: November 13
Death: 437
Protomartyrs of the Vandal persecution of the faith. They were Spaniards, exiled to Africa by Geiseric, the Vandal king, who professed the Arian heresy. Paulillus and Paschasius were young boys, brothers of Eutychi an. Arcadius was a married man, and Probus a believer in the faith. Paulillus was beaten until he died. The others were tortured and executed.
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