Nazarius

Little pictorial lives of the saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other approved sources : to which are added lives of the American saints : placed on the calendar for the United States by special petition of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore · taken up by St. Ambrose, in 395. In the tomb of St. Nazarius, a vial of the Saint's blood was found as fresh

whom he carried with him to assist him in his travels. These martyrs suffered soon after Nero had raised the first persecution. Their bodies were buried separately in a garden without the city, where they were discovered and taken up by St. Ambrose, in 395. In the tomb of St. Nazarius, a vial of the Saint's blood was found as fresh and red as if it had been spilt that day. The faithful stained handkerchiefs with some drops, and also formed a certain paste with it, a portion of which St. Ambrose sent to St. Gaudentius, Bishop of Brescia. St. Ambrose con- veyed the bodies of the two martyrs into the new church of the apostles, which he had just built. A woman was delivered of an evil spirit in their presence. St. Ambrose sent some of these relics to St. Paulinus of Nola, who re- ceived them with great respect, as a most valuable present, as he testifies.

Reflection. — The martyrs died as the outcasts of the svorld, but are crowned by God with immortal honor. The glory of the world is false and transitory, and an empty

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Biographical overview

Nazarius (rhetorician) (4th century CE), Latin rhetorician Saint Nazarius (Roman Martyrology) (died c. 303 CE), one of four Roman martyrs who suffered death under Diocletian Saint Nazarius (abbot), the fourteenth abbot of the monastery of Lérins, probably during the reign of the Merovingian Clotaire II (584–629) Saint Nazarius (bishop), the legendary first bishop of Koper, Istria Nazarius and Celsus, two 1st century CE martyrs whose bodies were discovered by Saint Ambrose shortly after 395 CE John Paul Nazarius (1556–1645), Italian Dominican theologian