Mavilus, a Pious Christian of Adrumelen

Tertullian writes a very frank admonition and warning about the coming wrath of God over all the persecutors of the Christians, addressed to Scapula, the Governor of Carthage, who had succeeded in the place of Vigellius Saturninus (who, because of the persecution he had carried on against the Christians, had been struck with blindness by the righteous judgment of God), and who also followed in his footsteps in cruelty. For when he came into the Governorship, he immediately and very cruelly sentenced Mavilus, a very pious Christian of Adrumelen, a city in Africa, to be torn by the beasts; and Mavilus, though by a severe death, reached a blessed end. Immediately after his death great plagues were sent by the Lord over the city of Carthage, where the Governor lived: great rains, high floods, terrible thunders, fiery signs in the air, and so on. The same author, in the same place, column, from Tertullian, ad Scapulam, chapter 3. [n174-1]