Sts. Nunilo and Alodia

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

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October 25 · Virgins, Martyrs

Sts. Nunilo and Alodia

Sts. Nunilo and Alodia

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

October 25
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

October 22
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Virgins
Martyrs

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. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on October 25 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Spanish Martyrologies. Authority Eulogius of Cordova, a contemporary.] Nunilo and Alodia were the daughters of a Christian woman, married to a Moor at Huesca in Spain, and brought up from infancy in their mother's faith. On the death of her husband the widow married again, and to another Moor, whereupon her daughters left her and took up their abode with their aunt. On the persecution of Abdulrahman breaking out, they were brought before the Cadi of Huesca, and executed in prison with the sword. Their relics are preserved at Leger in Navarre.

Feast days

Feast: October 22
Traditional: October 25

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Nunilo and Alodia's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

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Sources

Credits

Image: Alquézar - relieve en la subida a la Colegiata.jpg · ecelan · CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

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.

Image: ecelan, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5)

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.