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These two saints Nemesius and Nemesianus are quite distinct. Were they attested only hagiographically and well after the fact one might suspect that one was possibly a doublet of the other with a legendary Passio specifying a different country of service, a different persecution, and a different manner of death. But in this case they and the particular times and manners of their suffering are both attested by contemporary sources: the Egyptian Nemesius by St. Dionysius of Alexandria as noted below and the Numidian Nemesianus by St. Cyprian of Carthage, whose correspondence includes two letters (59, 76) about him and his fellow sufferers and one letter (77) from Nemesianus and others to Cyprian thanking him. One may read these letters in English-language translation here:
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050659.htm
http://66.37.140.35:3000/bible/fathers/050676.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050677.htm
Best,
John Dillon
On 09/09/11, Terri Morgan sent:
> Nemesius/Nemesion of Alexandria (d. 250). We know about the Egyptian Nemesian from an excerpt by Eusebius (Historia ecclesiastica, 6. 41. 21) from St. Dionysius of Alexandria's report on the martyrs of his city and elsewhere in Egypt during the Decian persecution. Acquitted of having been one of a band of robbers others of whom were convicted, he was quickly informed against as being a Christian. N. was then re-arrested, was tortured more severely than the robbers had been, and was executed by being burned between the latter, thus imitating Christ in the companions of his death. [note: I do not know if this is the same saint as the one in the entry below.]
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> Nemesian and companions (d. 257) Nemesian was a Numidian bishop, imprisoned with eight other bishops and assorted clerics and laypeople at Alexandria. They were sentenced to labor in the marble quarries of Sigum during the persecution of Valerian, where they were worked to death. Many priests and laypeople were also sentenced to the same quarry.
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