Martyr
Nemesius of Cyprus
A martyr of Cyprus, remembered in the synaxarion of the Greek Church.
- Feast
- February 20old style March 5
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Cyprus
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Saint Nemesius of Cyprus is commemorated on 20 February (new style, the calendar of the Church of Greece), with Didymus and Potamius, as a martyr of Cyprus; a Greek list also remembers them on 18 February. Nothing is known of them except that they died for the faith in Christ on the island of Cyprus, at different times, according to Kyprianos, an archimandrite and later archbishop of Cyprus, in his history printed in Venice in 1788.
Their names stand in the Roman Martyrology, so they are saints of the undivided Church. The scholar Hippolyte Delehaye thinks that they may have been from Alexandria.
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