Gaudiosus of Naples
Gaudiosus of Naples or Gaudiosus the African was a bishop of Abitina, a village near Carthage in present-day western Tunisia, in the Roman Africa Province.
Born Septimius Celius Gaudiosus, he fled North Africa during the persecutions of Genseric, king of the Vandals, by boat and arrived at Naples with other exiled churchmen, including the bishop of Carthage, who was named Quodvultdeus. Arriving around 439 AD, he established himself on the acropolis of Naples.
The introduction of the Augustinian Rule into Naples is attributed to him as well as the introduction of some relics, including those of Restituta.
In the Martyrology
- October 27 Saint Gaudioso, bishop of Naples