Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Saint Deogratias of Carthage

Heroic 5th-century Bishop of Carthage who sold all church treasures and gold vessels to ransom, shelter, and feed thousands of Roman citizens brought to Africa after Genseric's sack of Rome in 455 CE.

Nanny of the Maroons

Paramount leader of the Jamaican Windward Maroons who defeated the British army in the First Maroon War and secured sovereign autonomous lands for freed people.