Nazarius, Saint
Nazarius, Saint
Martyrs . Nothing is known of them except that their bodies were discovered at Milan by Saint Ambrose, c.396. Their apocryphal legend relates that Nazarius was born at Rome, fled to Upper Italy during the persecution of Nero, and traveled through Gaul with Celsus, a young convert of Cimiez. He was beheaded at Milan in 68. Feast , Roman Calendar, 28 July .
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Nazarius, Saint
Fourteenth abbot of the monastery of Lérins, probably sometime during the reign of the Merovingian Clotaire II, 584-629. He successfully attacked the remnants of heathendom on the southern coast of France, overthrew a sanctuary of Venus near Cannes, and founded on its site a convent for women, which was destroyed by the Saracens in the eighth century. His name is inscribed on the calendar of saints of the French Church, on 18 November.
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Dict. of Christ. Biog., s. v.; Gallia Christiana, ed. PIOLIN, III (Paris, 1876), 1193.
J.P. KIRSCH Transcribed by Thomas M. Barrett St. Nazarius, pray for us
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