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Aquilinus
d. 180 A.D. 17 July
Ancient Christian Church
Scillium near Carthage/Tunisia

One of the eleven youthful companions ("pupils") of Speratus in the "Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs" (the earliest dated document from the Latin Church) brought before Vigellius Saturninus, the proconsul of the Roman province of Africa, who is not recorded to have spoken during the interrogations. He was beheaded on 17 July 180 A.D., and is collectively commemorated among "the Scillitan martyrs" [cf. Musurillo 1972:89; PDS 303]. For what few other details can be indicated on the basis of the minimal sources, see the entry "Speratus."

Clyde Curry Smith


Bibliography (see abbreviations table below):

PDS 303-304; ODCC 1230; NIDCC 889 (DFWright); OEEC 762 (VSaxer); GEEC 17 (DMScholer).


Supplementary Bibliography:
Musurillo 1972refs Acts of the Christian Martyrs: Introduction, Texts and Translations, by Herbert Musurillo. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press.


This article, received in 2004, was researched and written by Dr. Clyde Curry Smith, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Religion, University of Wisconsin, River Falls.

Abbreviations and Source References for Ancient African Christians



J Jerome, Lives of Illustrious Men. Cited by chapter number.
G Gennadius, List of the Authors whom Gennadius added, after the death of the Blessed Jerome. Cited by chapter number.

PG Migne, Jacques Paul, ed., Patrologiae cursus completus, series graeca (Paris: 1857-1866), 161 volumes. Cited by volume number.
PL Migne, Jacques Paul, ed., Patrologiae cursus completus, series latina (Paris: 1844-1855), 221 volumes. Cited by volume number.
CPG Geerard, M., ed., Clavis Patrum Graecorum (Turnhout: Brepols, 1974-1987), 5 volumes. Cited by volume number(s).
CPL Dekkers, E., ed., Clavis Patrum Latinorum, 3rd edition (Steenbrugis: Abbatia S. Petri, 1995). Cited by number.
TLG Berkowitz, Luci, and Karl A. Squitier, ed., Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: Canon of Greek Authors and Works, 3rd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). Cited by number.

Q Quasten, Johannes, Patrology (Utrecht-Brussels: Spectrum Publishers, 1953-1960), 3 volumes; plus volume 4 (Westminster: Christian Classics, Inc., 1986). Cited by volume number and subdivisions.
<P> Pelikan, Jaroslav, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1971-1989), 5 volumes. Cited by volume number.

GEEC Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, ed. E. Ferguson (21997), 2 volumes. Cited by page (author).
NIDCC The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. J. D. Douglas (1974). Cited by page (author).
OCD The Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (31996). Cited by page (author).
ODByz The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, ed. A. P. Kazhdan (1991), 3 volumes. Cited by page (author).
ODCC The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. F. L. Cross (1957). Cited by page.
OEEC Encyclopedia of the Early Church, ed. A. DiBerardino (1992), 2 volumes. Cited by page (author).

JECS Journal of Early Christian Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993--). Cited by volume: page(s) (author).
JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies  (The University of Chicago Press, 1942--). Cited by volume: page(s) (author).
PDS The Penguin Dictionary of Saints, ed. Donald Attwater (1965). Cited by page.
TTH Translated Texts for Historians (Liverpool University Press, 1986--). Cited by volume number (author/editor).