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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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October 31 · Martyr, Virgin

Sts. Nemesius

Sts. Nemesius, Deac. and Lucilla

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

October 31
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Martyr
Virgin

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on October 31 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Usuardus, Ado, &c. Authority: — Mention in the Acts of Pope S. Stephen by Anastasius Bibliothecarius.] Nemesius, a deacon, and his daughter Lucilla, a virgin, were decapitated at Rome in 254. Their bodies were buried by Pope S. Stephen, and they were afterwards more honourGregory V. transferred them along with the relics of SS. Symphronius, Olympius, Exuperia, and Theodulus to S. Maria Nova. These relics were again taken up in the pontificate of Gregory XIII., and placed under the high altar.

Feast days

Feast: October 31

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Nemesius's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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St. Quintin

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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Credits

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.