Aemilianus (other)
Aemilianus can refer to a number of people in Classical history: *Scipio Aemilianus (185 BC–129 BC), son of Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, was adopted by Publius Cornelius Scipio, the son of Scipio Africanus *Lucius Mussius Aemilianus, one of the Thirty Tyrants; supported the rebellion of the Macriani against Gallienus (260-261 AD), and afterwards probably proclaimed himself emperor *Saint Aemilianus (died 484) (also called ''Aemilius''), martyred in Africa *Émilien of Nantes Émilien of Nantes ( la, Aemilianus; died ) was a French religious leader who was canonized by the church as a martyr for dying in a fight against the Saracens in Burgundy in 725 AD. No written records earlier than the 16th century survive, a ...

Scipio Aemilianus
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus (185–129 BC), known as Scipio Aemilianus or Scipio Africanus the Younger, was a Roman general and statesman noted for his military exploits in the Third Punic War against Carthage and during the Numantine War in Spain. He oversaw the final defeat and destruction of the city of Carthage. He was a prominent patron of writers and philosophers, the most famous of whom was the Greek historian Polybius. In politics, he opposed the populist reform program of his murdered brother-in-law, Tiberius Gracchus. Family Scipio Aemilianus was the second son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, the commander of the Romans' victorious campaign in the Third Macedonian War, and his first wife, Papiria Masonis. Scipio was adopted by his first cousin, Publius Cornelius Scipio P.f. P.n. Africanus, Publius Cornelius Scipio, the eldest son of his aunt Aemilia Tertia and her husband Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the acclaimed commander who won ...
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Lucius Mussius Aemilianus
Lucius Mussius Aemilianus '' signo'' Aegippius (died 261 or 262) who held a number of military and civilian positions during the middle of the third century. He is best known as a Roman usurper during the reign of Gallienus. Sources The sources for this emperor include Eusebius, ''Ecclesiae Historia'' 7.11; ''Epitome de Caesaribus'', 32.4; ''Historia Augusta'', "Gallienus" 4.1-2, 5.6, 9.1; " Tyranni Triginta" 22.1-8, as well as several papyri and one inscription. Career Mussius Aemilianus probably was of Italian stock. His career in imperial service is documented up to 18 May 247 from an inscription recovered at Fiumicino. Appointments he held up to that date include ''praefectus vehiculorum trium provinciarum Galliarum'', ''procurator Alexandreae Pelusi'' and a third location (now lost), ''procurator portus utriusque Ostiae''. Valerian appointed him ''Praefectus'' of Roman Egypt, a position he held from possibly as early as 256 to 261. While the primary concern of the g ...
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Saint Aemilianus
Saint Aemilianus (or Aemilius) lived in the 5th century AD, and is known as a physician, confessor, and martyr. In the reign of the Arian Vandal King Huneric, he became emmired in the Arian persecution in Africa. When he resisted conversion to Arianism, he was put to death by being flayed alive. Aemilianus' feast day is celebrated on December 6 in Roman Catholicism The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwide . It is am ..., and on December 7 in Eastern Orthodoxy. Bzovius, ''Nomenclator Sanctorum Professione Medicorum'' References 484 deaths 5th-century Christian martyrs Saints from the Vandal Kingdom Year of birth unknown {{saint-stub , Feast_day:St Aemilianus, martyr of Mesia is on July 18, according to the Roman martyrology. ...
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