Saint Armogastes
Martyr (
c. 455 Anno Domini A.D.) Feast: 29 March
Saints Who Worked with Their Hands
The 5th-century A.D. Vandal king Genseric ruled North Africa. After his return from plundering Rome 
in the year 467 A.D., Genseric, an adherent of the Arian heresy, turned against the Catholics in his kingdom. Among them was the court official Armogastes, who served in the household of Genseric's son Theodoric
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At Genseric 's order, Armogastes was tortured. Armogastes endured a series of brutalities, culminating in his being suspended upside down by one foot. Through it all, he resisted the calls to apostatize. The king, seeing his staunch faith, angrily ordered the courtier's beheading 
but an Arian priest intervened. The priest feared that Armogastes' death would make the courtier a hero, a martyr to rally the persecuted Christians.
And so, Armogastes was sentenced instead to backbreaking work in the mines of Byzacena 
. After this sentence was completed, the king, desiring to humiliate him even further, had him sent to Carthage (modern Tunis ) to work among the cows 
Armogastes accepted it all with patience. Not long after reaching Carthage, Armogastes died as a result of the ill-treatment in the mines. His fellow Christians declared him a martyr for Christ. ¡Viva Cristo Rey! 
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Heavenly Father, through the intercession of Saint Armogastes , help me to follow your Beloved Son who was rejected and humiliated for me 
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