Historical Archive
Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries
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Passed away 457 CE
Saint Deogratias of Carthage
(Deogratias Carthaginiensis)
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.
Carthage, Tunisia
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Passed away c. 1755
Nanny of the Maroons
(Granny Nanny)
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.
Moore Town, Jamaica
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