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Flavius Marcellinus was a high-ranking imperial official sent in 411 to Africa, where his older brother Apringius was governor, to settle the Donatist controversy. Marcellinus became good friends with St. Augustine of Hippo, who dedicated to him Books 1-3 of _The City of God_. Jim O'Donnell has an overview of the friendship and its documents here:
http://tinyurl.com/yd27l92
Marcellinus and his brother treated the Donatists with considerable severity. Some of the latter took their revenge by persuading a Roman general sent to put down a rebellion by one Heraclianus that the brothers had been among that rebel's supporters. For that Marcellinus and Apringius were arrested, tried, and -- notwithstanding an appeal on their behalf from Augustine -- convicted and swiftly executed in the year 413. Marcellinus is considered a martyr; today (13. September) is his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology. Prior to its revision of 2001 he had been commemorated on 6. April.
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John Dillon
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