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Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs
The Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs is a short Latin record of the trial at Carthage on 17 July 180 of twelve Christians from the town of Scilli in Roman North Africa. Refusing to swear by the emperor's genius, they were condemned and beheaded on the order of the proconsul Vigellius Saturninus. It is the earliest dated Christian document in Latin and the first evidence of Christianity in Africa.
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