medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Dillon & others have already given lots of good information, but
I'll add the bit from Holweck's Biographical Dictionary of the Saints
(1924), omitting the references at the end.
Juris
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Nabor and Felix, Mm. They were moorish soldiers in the army of Emp.
Maximianus Herculeus, who were tried and sentenced for their faith at
Milan and finally beheaded there (not at Lodi), about 303. Over their
tomb in Milan was built a basilica, in which S. Ambrose, in 386,
discovered the bodies of S. Gervasius and Protasius. Archbishop
Rainald (in 1164) is said to have brought their relics to the
cathedral of Cologne. Nabor and Felix are probably identical with Ss.
Nabor and Felix, the companions of S. Januarius of Mauretania. Since
the "acts" of the Martyrs of Milan are spurious, some martyrologists
concluded, that Ss. Nabor and Felix suffered in Mauretania and that
their bodies were transferred to Milan. But the repetition of the
names under Januarius may be one of the innumerable blunders of the
copyists found in the old sources.
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