Baring-Gould’s sources: The Martyrologium Parvum, Ado, Usuardus, &c. Modem Roman Martyrology. Authority: — Victor of Utica, a sufferer in the same persecution.] In the Vandal persecution in Africa under Genseric, a chief of the conquering race had slaves named Martinian, Saturian, and Maxima. Martinian was an armourer, and his master resolved on marrying him to Maxima, but she had vowed her virginity to God. She did not dare d^enly to refuse to take Martinian as her husband, but she secretly informed him of her vow, and he respected it. At her advice, her husband, Saturian, and two brothers, ran away from their master, and concealed themselves in the monastery of Tabenna, but were found and brought back, and cruelly beaten. Had they consented to receive Arian baptism they would have been spared. Plague carried off their master, his son, and some of his servants. The widow gave the confessors to Sersaon, a kinsman of the king. Maxima was allowed to go free, and she became superior of a convent of sisters; but Martinian and the others were sent to a Moorish prince at Capra Picta. They laboqred amongst the Moors, and converted many to the faith. They then wrote for a priest to be sent them from the nearest city.1 A church was built, and a congregation formed. When Genseric heard of this he was so exasperated, that he sent to have the confessors tied to the tails of wild horses, and 1 “ Mittunt legatos per itinera distenta deserti: perrenitur ad tivitatem romanam,” i.e. to a city of the old Roman colony, a Latin-speaking town. Not to the city of Rome, as the Roman Martyrology states.