Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
March 15
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Martyr
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 59 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
S. Nicander flourished in the reign of Diocletian, in Egypt. He visited the Christian confessors in their dungeons, and ministered to their necessities; and when they suffered, he gathered their ashes and bones, and reverently buried them. This devotion could not long remain unobserved by the heathen, and he was denounced to the governor, who sentenced him to death.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
Keep their day. Remember them on March 15 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
S. Nicander flourished in the reign of Diocletian [Roman emperor 284–305, who began the ‘Great Persecution’ of Christians in 303], in Egypt. He visited the Christian confessors in their dungeons, and ministered to their necessities; and when they suffered, he gathered their ashes and bones, and reverently buried them. This devotion could not long remain unobserved by the heathen, and he was denounced to the governor, who sentenced him to death.
Feast: March 15
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Nicander's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. 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.
