Window
in the parish church of St Remigius, Dunston, Norfolk, with stained glass by
George King representing St Nicomedes. The window was made in 1874 but the
saint's head is late XIVth-century
Saint Nicomede
Prêtre (2ème s.)
Prêtre, il répondit à ceux qui le pressaient de sacrifier aux idoles: " Je ne sacrifie qu'à Dieu tout puissant qui règne dans les cieux." Il mourut sous les coups de cordes plombées.
À Rome, saint Nicomède, martyr, dont le pape Boniface V honora le corps, déposé au cimetière de la voie Nomentane, en élevant par-dessus une basilique sépulcrale.
Martyrologe romain
15/09 St Nicomède,
martyr
Date du martyre inconnue,
sous Domitien au Ier siècle ? Fête attestée au VIIème siècle.
Leçons des Matines (avant 1960)
Neuvième leçon. Au temps où l’empereur Domitien persécutait les Chrétiens, le Prêtre Nicomède fut arrêté parce qu’il avait enseveli le corps de la Vierge Félicule, mise à mort sur l’ordre du comte Flaccus, pour avoir confessé la foi chrétienne. Amené devant les statues des faux dieux, Nicomède refusa d’obtempérer aux injonctions qui lui furent faites de leur sacrifier, l’hommage du sacrifice n’étant dû qu’au seul vrai Dieu qui règne dans les cieux. Alors on le frappa avec des fouets garnis de plomb, et il rendit son âme à Dieu au milieu de ce supplice. Le même comte Flaccus ordonna de jeter son corps dans le Tibre. Mais Just, élève de Nicomède, s’étant mis à sa recherche, le recueillit et l’ensevelit honorablement dans un sépulcre situé près des murailles de Rome, sur la voie Momentané.
eodem die 15 septembris
SANCTI NICOMEDIS
Mart.
Commemoratio
Missa In virtúte, de
Communi unius Martyris III loco, cum orationibus ut infra :
Oratio
Adésto, Dómine, pópulo
tuo : ut, beáti Nicomédis Mártyris tui mérita præclára suscípiens, ad
impetrándam misericórdiam tuam semper eius patrocíniis adiuvétur. Per Dóminum
nostrum.
Secreta
Súscipe, Dómine, múnera
propítius obláta : quæ maiestáti tuæ beáti Nicomédis Mártyris comméndet
orátio. Per Dóminum.
Postcommunio
Puríficent nos, Dómine,
sacraménta quæ súmpsimus : et, intercedénte beáto Nicoméde Mártyre tuo, a
cunctis effíciant vitiis absolútos. Per Dóminum.
ce même 15 septembre
SAINT NICOMÈDE
Martyr
Commémoraison
Messe In virtúte, du
Commun d’un Martyr III, avec les oraisons ci-dessous :
Collecte
Montrez-vous favorable à
votre peuple, Seigneur, afin que, célébrant les mérites si glorieux de votre
bienheureux Martyr Nicomède, il soit toujours aidé de ses prières pour obtenir
vos miséricordes.Secrète
Recevez avec bonté,
Seigneur, les dons offerts, et que la prière du bienheureux Nicomède Martyr les
recommande à votre majesté.
Postcommunion
Que les sacrements reçus
nous purifient, Seigneur, et par l’intercession du bienheureux Nicomède votre
Martyr, ils nous rendent exempts de tous les vices.
Profile
Priest in Rome, Italy. Arrested for
helping martyrs,
and for giving them Christian burial. Martyred.
beaten to
death with clubs c.71 at Rome, Italy
his catacomb is on the
Via Nomentana, Rome,
under the grounds of the Villa Patrizio
some relics transferred
to Milan and Parma in Italy
Additional
Information
Book
of Saints, by the Monks of
Ramsgate
Lives
of the Saints, by Father Alban
Butler
Saints
of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
books
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
other
sites in english
video
sitios
en español
Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición
fonti
in italiano
Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
MLA
Citation
“Saint Nicomedes of
Rome“. CatholicSaints.Info. 6 April 2024. Web. 5 June 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-nicomedes-of-rome/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-nicomedes-of-rome/
Article
(Saint) Martyr (September
15) (1st
century) A Roman priest associated
with Saints Nereus
and Achilleus (May 12),
and Saint Petronilla
(May 31),
to the last of whom he administered the Sacraments of the Dying. Saint Nicomedes
was scourged to death under
Domitian about A.D. 90.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Nicomedes”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
26 March 2016. Web. 5 June 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-nicomedes/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-nicomedes/
Nicomedes of Rome M (RM)
Died c. 90. The Emperor
Constantine Copronymus thought that the relics of the saints and martyrs were
worthless objects, and that anyone who collected the bones of the holy ones was
a fool. He therefore set about finding as many of these sacred remains as he
could and throwing them into the sea. Pope Saint Paschal I, who was elected in
817, 32 years after the emperor's death, disagreed. Whereas Constantine
Copronymus had got rid of saintly bones, Paschal I conceived it as his duty to
find as many replacements as possible. The church of Santa Prassede in Rome is
filled with all that he collected, their names inscribed on marble tablets
close by the sanctuary.
Among them are the
earthly remains of Saint Nicomedes, brought in 817 from their catacomb on the
Via Nomentina. Nicomedes had been a priest, at a time when Christians had to
keep their faith secret or risk death. His own beliefs came to light when he
bravely obtained the bones of another martyr, Saint Felicula, to give them
Christian burial.
Nicomedes was given the
chance of apostatizing by offering sacrifice to heathen gods. "I sacrifice
only to the almighty God who rules over us all from heaven," was
Nicomedes' response. Nicomedes had signed his own death warrant. He was beaten
with whips that had been made crueller by means of lead lining and, under this
torture, died.
The saint's body was
thrown into the Tiber, so that the Christians could not burial it. But another
Christian named Justus boldly rescued it and placed the corpse in a tomb on the
Via Nomentina, just outside the Porta Pia. And there it remained until 817
(Bentley).
In art, Saint Nicomedes
is depicted as an early Christian priest with a club set with spikes
(Roeder).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0915.shtml
_-_lato_nord_2019-06-12.jpg)
Chiesa di San Nicomede (Giarola, Collecchio) - lato nord
Saint Nicomedes
Aug 11, 2021 /
Written by: Tonia
Long
FEAST SEPTEMBER 15
Priest and Martyr
Little is known of the
early life of this heroic Christian martyr. What can be known for sure is
derived from the historical texts of Holy Mother Church as follows.
Stained glass depiction
of scene common in the days of the early Christian martyrs and the time of St.
Nicomedes. Stained glass window in St. Catherine’s Church in Honfleur, France.
The Roman Martyrologium
and the historical Martyrologies of Bede and his imitators place St. Nicomedes’
feast date on September 15.
The Gregorian
Sacramentary contains under the same date the orations for his Mass. A titular
church of Rome, mentioned in the fifth century, was dedicated to him (titulus
S. Nicomedis). Three seventh-century Itineraries make explicit reference to his
grave, and Pope Adrian I restored the church built over it (De Rossi, Roma
Sotterranea, I, 178–79).
The saint is without
doubt a martyr of the Roman Church.
St. Nicomedes was a Roman
Catholic priest who was arrested for helping martyrs and for giving them
Christian burial. One tradition states that he buried the remains of St.
Felicula and was arrested.
As punishment for his
“crimes” he was beaten to death with whips and buried in the catacomb on the
Via Nomentana, about 90 A.D. Some of his relics have been transferred to
churches in Milan and Parma, Italy.
A holy “line up”
including: St. Dominic, St. Nicomèdes, Our Lady and Jesus, St. Claude and St.
Fiacre. These sculptures are found in the interior of the Chapelle de
Kermaria-an-Isquit in France.
From the much-referenced
Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73)*:
HE was a holy priest at
Rome, who was apprehended in the persecution of Domitian for his assiduity in
assisting the martyrs in their conflicts, and for interring their bodies.
Refusing constantly to sacrifice to idols, he was beaten to death with clubs
about the year 90. His tomb was on the road to Nomento, and he is commemorated
on this day in the sacramentary of St. Gregory the Great, and in the
Martyrologies of St. Jerome, Bede, &c. See the Acts of SS. Nereus and
Achilleus.
Collect:
Stay close to Your people, O Lord, so that the brilliant merits of Your blessed
martyr Nicomedes may help us, and his prayers win for us Your unfailing mercy.
Through our Lord . . .
*[Volume IX:
September. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.]
SOURCE : https://americaneedsfatima.org/articles/saint-nicomedes
15/09 St Nicomède,
martyr
Date du martyre inconnue,
sous Domitien au Ier siècle ? Fête attestée au VIIème siècle.
Leçons des Matines (avant 1960)
Neuvième leçon. Au temps où l’empereur Domitien persécutait les Chrétiens, le Prêtre Nicomède fut arrêté parce qu’il avait enseveli le corps de la Vierge Félicule, mise à mort sur l’ordre du comte Flaccus, pour avoir confessé la foi chrétienne. Amené devant les statues des faux dieux, Nicomède refusa d’obtempérer aux injonctions qui lui furent faites de leur sacrifier, l’hommage du sacrifice n’étant dû qu’au seul vrai Dieu qui règne dans les cieux. Alors on le frappa avec des fouets garnis de plomb, et il rendit son âme à Dieu au milieu de ce supplice. Le même comte Flaccus ordonna de jeter son corps dans le Tibre. Mais Just, élève de Nicomède, s’étant mis à sa recherche, le recueillit et l’ensevelit honorablement dans un sépulcre situé près des murailles de Rome, sur la voie Momentané.
eodem die 15 septembris
SANCTI NICOMEDIS
Mart.
Commemoratio
Missa In virtúte, de
Communi unius Martyris III loco, cum orationibus ut infra :
Oratio
Adésto, Dómine, pópulo
tuo : ut, beáti Nicomédis Mártyris tui mérita præclára suscípiens, ad
impetrándam misericórdiam tuam semper eius patrocíniis adiuvétur. Per Dóminum
nostrum.
Secreta
Súscipe, Dómine, múnera
propítius obláta : quæ maiestáti tuæ beáti Nicomédis Mártyris comméndet
orátio. Per Dóminum.
Postcommunio
Puríficent nos, Dómine,
sacraménta quæ súmpsimus : et, intercedénte beáto Nicoméde Mártyre tuo, a
cunctis effíciant vitiis absolútos. Per Dóminum.
ce même 15 septembre
SAINT NICOMÈDE
Martyr
Commémoraison
Messe In virtúte, du
Commun d’un Martyr III, avec les oraisons ci-dessous :
Collecte
Montrez-vous favorable à
votre peuple, Seigneur, afin que, célébrant les mérites si glorieux de votre
bienheureux Martyr Nicomède, il soit toujours aidé de ses prières pour obtenir
vos miséricordes.Secrète
Recevez avec bonté,
Seigneur, les dons offerts, et que la prière du bienheureux Nicomède Martyr les
recommande à votre majesté.
Postcommunion
Que les sacrements reçus
nous purifient, Seigneur, et par l’intercession du bienheureux Nicomède votre
Martyr, ils nous rendent exempts de tous les vices.
SOURCE : https://www.introibo.fr/15-09-St-Nicomede-martyr
September 15
St. Nicomedes, Martyr
HE was a holy priest at
Rome, who was apprehended in the persecution of Domitian for his assiduity in
assisting the martyrs in their conflicts, and for interring their bodies.
Refusing constantly to sacrifice to idols, he was beaten to death with clubs
about the year 90. His tomb was on the road to Nomento, and he is commemorated
on this day in the sacramentary of St. Gregory the Great, and in the
Martyrologies of St. Jerom, Bede, &c. See the Acts of SS. Nereus and
Achilleus.
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume IX: September. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/9/152.html
St. Nicomedes
Martyr of
unknown era, whose feast is
observed 15 September. The Roman Martyrologium and
the historical Martyrologies of Bede and
his imitators place the feast on this date.
The Gregorian Sacramentary contains under the same date the
orations for his Mass. The name does not appear in the three oldest and
most important manuscripts of
the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum", but was inserted in later
recensions ("Martyrol. Hieronymianum", ed. De Rossi-Duchesne,
in Acta SS., Nov., II, 121). The saint is
without doubt a martyr of
the Roman
Church. He was buried in
a catacomb on
the Via Nomentana near the gate of that name. Three seventh century Itineraries make
explicit reference to his grave,
and Pope
Adrian I restored the church built over it (De
Rossi, "Rome Sotterranea", I, 178-79). A
titular church of Rome,
mentioned in the fifth century, was dedicated to
him (titulus S. Nicomedis). Nothing is known of
the circumstances of his death. The legend of the martyrdom of
Sts. Nereus and Achilleus introduces him as a presbyter and
places his death at the end of the first century. Other recensions of the martyrdom of St.
Nicomedes ascribe the sentence of death to
the Emperor
Maximinianus (beginning of the fourth century).
Sources
Acta SS., Sept., V, 5
sqq., Analecta Bollandiana, XI, 268-69; MOMBRITIUS, Sanctuarium, II,
160-61; Bibliotheca hagiographica latina, ed. BOLLANDISTS, II, 901-02;
DUFOURCQ, Les Gesta Martyrurm romains, I (Paris, 1900), 209-10;
MARUCCI, Les catacombes romaines (Rome, 1900), 254-56.
Kirsch, Johann
Peter. "St. Nicomedes." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton
Company, 1911. 15 Sept.
2015 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11069c.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph E. O'Connor.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2020 by Kevin
Knight. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11069c.htm
Pieve
di Nicomede di Roma, Salsomaggiore Terme, provincia di Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italia
Pieve
di Nicomede di Roma, Salsomaggiore Terme, provincia di Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italia
San Nicomede di
Roma Martire
Emblema: Palma
Martirologio
Romano: A Roma, san Nicomede, martire, il cui corpo, sepolto nel cimitero
sulla via Nomentana, fu onorato dal papa Bonifacio V con una basilica
sepolcrale.
Di lui si parla nella
leggendaria ‘passio’ dei santi Nereo ed Achilleo composta nel V-VI secolo il
cui autore, afferma che Nicomede era un sacerdote (presbitero).
Fu scoperto mentre
seppelliva il corpo della martire Felicola e arrestato da un certo Flacco,
giacché non volle sacrificare agli dei, fu sottoposto ad una crudele
flagellazione, durante la quale morì; il suo corpo fu gettato nel Tevere; un
suo chierico di nome Giusto lo recuperò e lo seppellì in un orticello lungo la
via Nomentana.
L’autore della ‘passio’
non accenna al giorno della morte ma dal contesto si può desumere che fu al tempo
dell’imperatore Domiziano (51-96), studi e recensioni successive ipotizzano il
15 settembre; mentre altra ‘passio’ del secolo VII pone la sua morte al 1°
giugno sotto Massimiano (240-310).
Comunque sia, l’esistenza
e il culto di questo martire Nicomede sono attestati da documenti degni di
fede, mentre le notizie biografiche sono incerte; del resto egli è citato in
almeno otto 'Martirologi' storici, in quello ‘Romano’ è rimasta la sua festa al
15 settembre.
Già nel secolo VII, si sa
che i pellegrini veneravano, sulla via Nomentana, il sepolcro del martire, sul
quale il papa Bonifacio V (619-625) aveva fatta erigere una basilica,
restaurata poi da Adriano I (†795).
Autore: Antonio
Borrelli
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90960
Voir aussi : http://orthodoxievco.net/ecrits/vies/synaxair/septembr/nicomede.pdf
