Typasius
Algerian saint
Typasius (Italian: Tipasio) (died 11 January 304) is venerated as a military saint by the Catholic Church. His feast day is 11 January.
Legend
The Passio Typasii records that Typasius was a veteran of Tigava (today El Kherba), in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis. Called to service by Maximian against the native Quinquegentiani, who were revolting against Roman rule, Typasius, who had become a Christian, refused to participate in this campaign. He had retired from military life. This brought him in direct confrontation with the authorities. As his legend records:
He was forced into active service again by his praepositus, and along with other vexillarii
went to battle. But the day before the battle the emperor Maximianus had wished to make a
donative to the soldiers. That night the angel Gabriel visited most blessed Typasius and
advised him one after the other of all the things that were going to happen. Morning came, and
when Maximianus Augustus was making the role-call on the parade-ground and the name of the
most blessed Typasius was read out loud, he declined to accept the gold from the hand of
Maximianus and declared that he was a soldier of Christ.
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