North Africa (historical region)

Explore these lives with notes explaining historical geography and uncertain birthplaces.

Showing 1–4 of 4. Read each story’s origin note for traditional or disputed accounts.

Monastic / Hermit · 9 January

St. Adrian of Canterbury

Adrian, also spelled Hadrian , was a Berber scholar in Anglo-Saxon England and the abbot of Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's in Canterbury.

Martyr

Cyprian was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant.

Martyr · March 7

A young mother whose prison testimony witnesses to steadfast faith.

Bishop · 12 April

Zeno of Verona was a Mauri Berber Christian figure believed to have either served as Bishop of Verona or died as a martyr.