medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Oops! In the current RM, under 10. September Nemesius the Decian martyr of Alexandria _precedes_ (not replaces) Nemesius, Felix, Lucius, and others named and unnamed, martyrs and confessors of Roman Africa. Apologies for the slip.
--JD
On 12/19/14, I just wrote:
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> We know about this saint solely from St. Dionysius of Alexandria's letter about the Alexandrian martyrs under Decius as quoted by Eusebius (_HE_ 6. 41; this saint at paragraph 21). Whereas in the original Greek his name is given as Nemesion, he appears as Nemesius in Rufinus' Latin translation and it was from there that he entered the series of ninth-century martyrologies ancestral to the Roman Martyrology...
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> In the martyrologies the dates of commemoration of these saints of Alexandria have always been arbitrarily chosen. Florus of Lyon gave all of them a single, lengthy entry under 20. February. St. Ado of Vienne broke that elogium up, entering individuals and small groups under different days. The day he chose for this Nemesius (there are of course other saints so named) was 19. December and in this he was followed by Usuard and, until its revision of 2001, by the Roman Martyrology. In the current RM our Nemesius is commemorated on 10. September, having there replaced Nemesius, Felix, Lucius, and others named and unnamed, martyrs and confessors of Roman Africa (which latter did not include Egypt) known from the correspondence of St. Cyprian of Carthage to have suffered in the mines under Decius.
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