A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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Martyrs
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 38 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
.SS. Nemesius and Lucilla. and Aristobulus together under the title of apostles. There is no evidence that they were “massacred by the Jews and Pagans for the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” as is stated in the Roman Martyrology.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
Keep their day. Remember them on October 31 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
.SS. Nemesius and Lucilla. and Aristobulus together under the title of apostles. There is no evidence that they were “massacred by the Jews and Pagans for the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” as is stated in the Roman Martyrology.
Feast: October 31
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From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
