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Timothy of Mauretania
deacon and martyr in Mauretania
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 21 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
In Mauretania, in the territory of present-day Algeria, Saint Timothy, deacon and martyr.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 21 May as a deacon martyred in Mauretania, in the territory of present-day Algeria.
Sources
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