Abundius and Abundantius

Abundius and Abundantius (died c. 304) are Christian martyrs who were killed during the Diocletian persecution. Their feast day is celebrated on September 16.

Abundius and Abundantius
Diedc. 304
north of Rome
Feast16 September

Biography

Abundius was a priest who had earlier resurrected John, the son of Marcianus. Upon hearing of this, the emperor ordered these three, with Abundantius, a deacon, to be beheaded. The executions were carried out at the 26th milestone of the Via Flaminia.[1]

Veneration

Their bodies were later transferred to the church of Cosmas and Damian in Rome. The bodies of Marcianus and John were found around 1001 and transferred to Civita Castellana. There, they were elected to be the city's principal patron saints. In 1583, the relics of Abundius and Abundantius were transferred to the SS. Nome di Gesu, where they were placed under the church's high altar. Aloysius Gonzaga heard mass there before becoming a Jesuit.

gollark: So if anything wants to know the IP, it *has* to - indirectly - contact my server.
gollark: There's only one authority for d.osmarks.net and it's my server.
gollark: People want to be able to know the IPs for things still, I guess.
gollark: Generally you won't talk to my nameserver directly but to a recursive DNS resolver which then looks it up. The nice thing about DNS is that even on internal network-type things, DNS queries will quite likely be propagated to the outside world.
gollark: That nameserver parses the DNS query and does stuff based on its contents.

See also

References

  1. Saint Augustine's Abbey (30 June 2015). The Book of Saints. London, United Kingdom: Aeterna Press.

Sources

  • Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.