Nicomedes, Saint
Nicomedes, Saint
Martyr, died c.71. Roman priest; arrested for assisting the martyrs in their persecutions and for burying them. His catacomb is on the Via Nomentana at Rome, under the grounds of the Villa Patrizio. Some of his relics were transferred to Milan and Parma. Feast , Roman Calendar, 15 September .
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Nicomedes, Saint
Martyr of unknown era, whose feast is observed 15 September. The Roman Martyrologium and the historical Martyrologies of Bede and his imitators place the feast on this date. The Gregorian Sacramentary contains under the same date the orations for his Mass. The name does not appear in the three oldest and most important MSS. of the “Martyrologium Hieronymianum”, but was inserted in later recensions (“Martyrol. Hieronymianum”, ed. De Rossi-Duchesne, in Acta SS., Nov., II, 121). The saint is without doubt a martyr of the Roman Church. He was buried in a catacomb on the Via Nomentana near the gate of that name. Three seventh century Itineraries make explicit reference to his grave, and Pope Adrian I restored the church built over it (De Rossi, “Rome Sotterranea”, I, 178-79). A titular church of Rome, mentioned in the fifth century, was dedicated to him (titulus S. Nicomedis). Nothing is known of the circumstances of his death. The legend of the martyrdom of Sts. Nereus and Achilleus introduces him as a presbyter and places his death at the end of the first century. Other recensions of the martyrdom of St. Nicomedes ascribe the sentence of death to the Emperor Maximianus (beginning of the fourth century).
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Acta SS., Sept., V, 5 sqq., Analecta Bollandiana, XI, 268-69; MOMBRITIUS, Sanctuarium, II, 160-61; Bibliotheca hagiographica latina, ed. BOLLANDISTS, II, 901-02; DUFOURCQ, Les Gesta Martyrurm romains, I (Paris, 1900), 209-10; MARUCCI, Les catacombes romaines (Rome, 1900), 254-56.
J.P. KIRSCH Transcribed by Joseph E. O’Connor
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