Saint Cartholinus

Catulinus (Cartholinus, Latin: Catulinus, Cartholinus, d. 303) was a deacon and a hieromartyr of Carthage. His feast day is July 15. On the same day as Catulinus (July 15), other martyrs suffered, notably Felix, Bishop of Thibiuca, whose relics also rested in the Church of St. Faustus (the Cathedral of Carthage) alongside those of Saints Januarius, Florentius, Polluntana, Julia, and Justa. Blessed Augustine dedicated a sermon to Catulinus, but as Possidius, Bishop of Calama, noted, this text has not survived. Hippolyte Delehaye, relying on the text of the Martyrdom of the Bishop, suggests that Catulinus and the other victims whose relics were kept in the Basilica of St. Faustus were martyred in 303, at the beginning of the Diocletianic Persecution. D. V. Zaitsev notes that although the name of Catulinus is mentioned in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum (the Italian recension, first half of the 5th century) under July 15 along with the names of other martyrs, researchers have no information as to whether there was any connection between the deacon and the other martyrs (Januarius, Florentius, Polluntana, Julia, and Justa) other than their common burial place.