Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
December 18
December 19 (also listed: September 10)
Martyr
In the persecution of Decius, Nemesion, an Egyptian, was arrested at Alexandria on a charge of theft. He cleared himself, but was then accused of being a Christian. The Augustal prefect had him tortured twice as hard as the thieves and burned with them.
Four soldiers, Ammon, Zeno, Ptolemy and Ingenuus, and a man named Theophilus encouraged a confessor on the rack and were beheaded for it. Butler and Baring-Gould agree on about 250.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
Keep their day. Remember them on December 18 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: December 19
Traditional: December 18
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Nemesion's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Saint Nemesius and Saint John the Baptist.png · Spinello Aretino · Public domain, 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: Spinello Aretino, Wikimedia Commons (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.
