In Zaragoza, in Hispania Tarraconensis, commemoration of St. Optato and his seventeen companions, martyrs who were executed, after being tormented, in the persecution under the Emperor Diocleciano composing Prudencio verses about his glorious martyrdom (s. IV). Their names are: Luperco, event, martial, urban, Julia, Quintilian, Publius, Fronto, Felix, Ceciliano, Evodius, Primitivo, Apodemio and four others carrying all name Saturnino.
Celebration | 16 of April Saints of the day |
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Name |
Optato is a man's name.
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Death | in Zaragoza in current Spain Saints dead in Spain |
Process | We have no record of his canonization process. |