lundi 28 juin 2021

Saint ARGIMIRO de CABRA y de CÓRDOBA (ARGIMIR, ARGYMIRUS), moine et martyr

 

Retablo de la capilla de los Santos Mártires (Basílica de San Pedro (Córdoba), con la urna donde se guardan sus restos.

Saint Argimir

Martyr à Cordoue (+ 856)

Martyr à Cordoue en Andalousie. Après plusieurs années passées au service du roi maure, il passa au service du Christ qui est la Vie.

À Cordoue en Andalousie, l'an 856, saint Argimir, moine et martyr. Dans la persécution des Maures, sous le règne de Mohammed II, le juge le somma de renier le Christ. Lui, qui était avancé en âge, demeura persévérant dans la confession de la foi. On l'étendit vivant sur le chevalet et on l'acheva d'un coup d'épée.

Martyrologe romain

SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1400/Saint-Argimir.html

SAINT ARGIMIR, MARTYR (856)

Argimir était né de parents chrétiens à Cabra, anciennement Egabro, dans la province de Cordoue. Le pays était sous la domination des Maures musulmans. Le roi infidèle appela Argimir à la fonction de censeur, à Cordoue : c’était un poste important. Après plusieurs années, il avait démissionné et s’était retiré dans un couvent pour servir Dieu et travailler à son salut dans le repos de la prière et de la contemplation. Il était resté à Cordoue. Les chrétiens étaient persécutés et on le dénonça. Le juge le força à abjurer, mais il refusa. On mit Argimir, malgré son grand âge, sur le chevalet. Il y mourut d’un coup d’épée le 28 juin 856 sous Mohammed II. Le corps fut exposé des jours à un gibet. Il fut enfin recueilli et déposé dans l’église de Saint-Aciscle.

SOURCE : https://present.fr/2018/06/27/saint-argimir-martyr-856/

Saint Argymirus of Cordoba

Also known as

Argimiro

Argimirus

Memorial

28 June

Profile

Government official in CordobaSpain during the Moorish occupation, but he lost his position due to being a ChristianMonk. Soon after his profession he responded to inquiries by renouncing Islam and declaring his loyalty to Christ. Martyr.

Born

CabraSpain

Died

beheaded in 856

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate

Roman Martyrology1914

books

Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english

Catholic Online

sitios en español

Martirologio Romano2001 edición

fonti in italiano

Martirologio Romano2005 edition

Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

“Saint Argymirus of Cordoba“. CatholicSaints.Info. 22 June 2017. Web. 28 June 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/saint-argymirus-of-cordoba/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-argymirus-of-cordoba/

ARGIMIR, ST.

Martyr; b. c. 785, Cabra, Spain; d. June 28, 856, Córdoba. Argimir was an elderly nobleman who had earlier held the office of censor in the Muslim government of Córdoba. He had retired from the administration of justice and withdrawn to a monastery when certain Muslims accused him of scurrilous derision of their prophet and profession of the divinity of Christ. Argimir admitted the charges before the qadi and was hung on the eculeus while still alive and finally slain by the sword. Christians buried his relics in the basilica of St. Acisclus in Córdoba. He was included in the Roman martyrology in 1586.

Feast: July 7.

Bibliography: Eulogius, Memoriale sanctorum, Patrologia Latina, ed. J. P. Migne (Paris 1878–90). 115:815–818. E. P. Colbert, The Martyrs of Córdoba, 850–859 (Washington 1962) 262–264.

[E. P. Colbert]

SOURCE : https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/argimir-st

Martyrs of Córdoba

The Martyrs of Córdoba were forty-eight Christian martyrs living in the 9th century Muslim-ruled Al-Andalus, in what is now southern Spain; their hagiography describes in detail their executions for deliberately sought capital violations of Muslim law in Al-Andalus. The martyrdoms instanced by Eulogius took place between 851 and 859; with few exceptions, the Christians invited execution by making public statements tactically chosen to invite martyrdom: some martyrs appeared before the Muslim authorities to denounce Muhammad; others, possibly Christian children of Islamic-Christian marriages, publicly proclaimed their Christianity as apostates (Coope 1995). The lack of an interested chronicler after Eulogius' own martyrdom has given way to the misimpression that there were fewer episodes later in the 9th century.

Historical background

In 711 AD, a Muslim army from North Africa had conquered Visigoth Christian Iberia. Under their leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, they landed at Gibraltar and brought most of the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic rule in an eight-year campaign. The Iberian Peninsula was called Al-Andalus by its Muslim rulers. When the Umayyad Caliphs were deposed in Damascus in 750, the dynasty relocated to Córdoba, ruling an emirate there; consequently the city gained in luxury and importance, as a center of Iberian Muslim culture.

Once the Muslims conquered Iberia, they governed it in accordance with Islamic shariah law.[citation needed] Christians and Jews were treated as dhimmis subject to a poll tax allowing them to live under the Islamic state. Under shariah, blasphemy against Islam, whether by Muslims or dhimmis, and apostasy from Islam are all grounds for the death penalty.

During this time, the faithful could, it is true, worship freely, and retained their churches and property on condition of paying a tribute for every parish, cathedral, and monastery; frequently such tribute was increased at the will of the conqueror, and often the living had to pay for the dead. Many of the faithful then fled to Northern Spain; others took refuge in the monasteries of Sierras, and thus the number of Christians shrank eventually to small proportions. 

Notably Reccafred, Bishop of Córdoba, taught the virtues of toleration and compromise with the Muslim authorities, which did nothing to slow the process. To the scandal of Eulogius, whose texts are the only source for these martyrdoms, and who was venerated as a saint from the 9th century, the bishop sided with Muslim authorities against the martyrs, whom he regarded as fanatics. The closures of such monasteries where some martyrs belonged begins to be recorded towards the middle of the 9th century. The monk Eulogius encouraged the martyrs as a way to reinforce the faith of the Christian community. He composed tractates and a martyrology to justify the self-immolation of the martyrs, of which a single manuscript, containing his Documentum martyriale, the three books of his Memoriale sanctorum and his Liber apologeticus martyrum, was preserved in Oviedo, in the Christian kingdom of Asturias in the far northwestern coast of Hispania. There the relics of Saint Eulogius were translated in 884.

The executions

Roderick, a priest of Cabra, executed at Córdoba, by Bartolomé Esteban Perez Murillo.

The forty-eight Christians (mostly monks) were martyred in Córdoba, between the years 850 AD and 859 AD, being decapitated for religious offences against Islam.

The detailed Acta of these martyrs were ascribed to the aptly named "Eulogius" ("blessing"), who was one of the last two to die. Although most of the martyrs of Cordoba were Hispanic, either Baeto-Roman or Visigothic, one name is from Septimania, another Arab or Berber and another of indeterminate nationality; there were also connections with the Orthodox East: one of the martyrs was Syrian, another an Arab or Greek monk from Palestine, and two others had distinctive Greek names. The Greek element recalls the Byzantine interlude of power in southernmost Hispania Baetica, until they were finally expelled in 554: representatives of the Byzantine Empire had been invited to help settle a Visigothic dynastic struggle, but had stayed on, as a hoped-for spearhead to a "Reconquest" of the far west envisaged by emperor Justinian I.

List of martyrs

Abundius

July 11, 854. A parish priest in Ananelos, a village near Córdoba. He was arrested for having maligned Mohammad. Unlike most of the other martyrs, Abundius was betrayed by others and did not volunteer to face the Emir's court. He was beheaded and his body was thrown to the dogs. His feast day is celebrated on July 11.

Adolphus and John

27 September 822 (their feast day). Two brothers born in Seville, Al-Andalus, of a Muslim father and a Christian mother. They were executed in Córdoba under Abd ar-Rahman II.

Adolphus is the saint of the fictional Kingsbridge Cathedral in the epic historical novels The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett.

Amator, Peter and Louis

April 30, 855. Amator was born in Martos, near Córdoba, where he was an ordained priest. Together with a monk named Peter and a layman called Louis (Ludovicus), the brother of the previous martyr Paul, he was executed by the Emirate for blaspheming Islam.

Anastasius, Felix and Digna

June 14, 853. Anastasius was a deacon of the church of St. Acisclus in Córdoba, who became a monk at nearby Tábanos. Felix was born in Alcalá of a Berber family, became a monk in Asturias but joined the monastery at Tábanos, hoping for martyrdom. Digna belonged to the convent there.

Argymirus

(also known as Argimirus, Argimir) June 28, 856. Argimir, a nobleman from Cabra, was Emir Muhammad I's censor. He was deprived of his office on account of his faith and became a monk. He was accused by others of having insulted the prophet Muhammad and publicly proclaimed the divinity of Jesus. Argimir was offered mercy if he renounced Christianity and professed Islam; he refused, and was executed.

Aurea

(also known as Aura) July 19, 856. Born in Córdoba in Al-Andalus and a daughter of Muslim parents, in her widowhood she quietly became a Christian and a nun at Cuteclara, where she remained for more than twenty years. She was discovered by Muslim relatives, brought before a judge, and renounced her Christianity under duress. However, she regretted this, and continued to practice Christianity in secret. When her family discovered this, she was again brought before a court, refused to repent a second time, and was executed.

Benildis

June 15, 853. Anastasius' execution inspired this woman of Cordoba to choose martyrdom herself the next day. Her ashes were thrown into the Guadalquivir.

Columba

September 17, 853. Born in Córdoba and a nun at Tábanos, she was detained with the rest of the nuns, to prevent them from giving themselves up to the courts, when the Emirate closed the monastery in 852. She escaped, openly denounced Muhammad and was beheaded.

Elias, Paul and Isidore

April 17, 856. Elias, a priest in Córdoba, was executed in his old age by the Moors, together with the young monks Paul and Isidore, two of his students. According to the "Great Synaxaristes", their feast day in the Orthodox Church is on April 30.

Emilas and Jeremiah

September 15, 852. Two young men, the former of whom was a deacon, imprisoned and beheaded in Cordoba under the Emir Abderrahman.

Eulogius of Cordoba

March 11, 859. A prominent priest in Córdoba Al-Andalus during this period. Outstanding for his courage and learning, he encouraged some of the voluntary martyrs and wrote The Memorial of the Saints for their benefit. He himself was executed for hiding and protecting a young girl St. Leocritia that had converted from Islam.

Fandilas

June 13, 853. A priest and Abbot of Peñamelaria near Córdoba. He was beheaded in Córdoba by order of Muhammad I.

Flora and Maria

November 24, 851. These two women were both the offspring of marriages between a Christian and a Muslim. In addition, Maria was the sister of Walabonsus, who had been executed earlier. Flora's father, who died when she was very young, was a Muslim, and so her Christianity was legally defined as apostasy. Although Maria and Flora denounced Islam in court together, Maria was executed for blasphemy and Flora for apostasy.

George, Aurelius and Natalia, Felix and Liliosa

July 27 c. 852. Martyrs in Córdoba under Emir Abd ar-Rahman II. Aurelius and Felix, with their wives, Natalia and Liliosa, were Iberians whose family backgrounds, although religiously mixed, legally required them to profess Islam. After given four days to recant, they were condemned as apostates for revealing their previously secret Christian faith. The deacon George was a monk from Palestine who was arrested along with the two couples. Though offered a pardon as a foreigner, he chose to denounce Islam again and die with the others.

Gumesindus and Servusdei

January 13, 852. Gusemindus, a parish-priest, and Servusdei, a monk, were executed in Cordoba under Abd ar-Rahman II.

Isaac

June 3, 851. Born to a wealthy Córdoban family, he was well educated and fluent in Arabic which helped him rise quickly to the position of exceptor rei publicae in the Moorish government. He resigned in order to become a monk at his family's monastery of Tábanos, a few miles from Córdoba. During a public debate in Cordoba he denounced Mohammed and was executed for it.

Laura

October 19, 864. Born in Córdoba, as a widow she became a nun at Cuteclara. Condemned as an apostate, she was thrown into a cauldron of molten lead.

Leocritia

(also known as Lucretia) March 15, 859. A young girl in Córdoba. Her parents were Muslims, but she was converted to Christianity by a relative. On Eulogius' advice and with his aid, Leocritia escaped her home and went into hiding. Once found, both were arrested. Eulogius, after years of being in and out of prison and encouraging voluntary martyrdom, was executed for proselytization, and Leocritia for apostasy.

Leovigild and Christopher

August 20, 852. Leovigild was a monk and pastor in Córdoba and Christopher a monk of the monastery of St Martin de La Rojana near Córdoba. They were executed in Córdoba under Abd ar-Rahman II.

Nunilo and Alodia

October 22, 851. Two sisters born in Adahuesca in Huesca in Al-Andalus. Daughters of a Muslim father and Christian mother, they were raised as Christians. After the death of their father, their mother married another Muslim, who brutally persecuted them and had them imprisoned. They were finally beheaded in Huesca during the reign of Abd ar-Rahman II.

Paul of St Zoilus

July 20, 851. A deacon in Córdoba who belonged to the monastery of St Zoilus and who was very zealous in ministering to Christians imprisoned by the Muslims. He was beheaded; his relics are enshrined in the church of St Zoilus.

Peter, Walabonsus, Sabinian, Wistremundus, Habentius and Jeremiah

June 7, 851. Peter was a priest; Walabonsus, a deacon; Sabinian and Wistremundus, monks of St Zoilus in Córdoba in Al-Andalus; Habentius, a monk of St Christopher's; Jeremiah, a very old man, had founded the monastery of Tábanos, near Córdoba. For publicly denouncing Muhammad they were executed under Abderrahman in Córdoba. Jeremiah was scourged to death; the others were beheaded.

Perfectus

April 18, 850. A priest in Córdoba in Al-Andalus, beheaded for testimony against Islam and Muhammad.

Pomposa

September 19, 835. A nun at Peñamelaria near Córdoba. She was beheaded by the Emir of Córdoba.

September 19, 853. Another nun, from the monastery of San Salvador at Peñamelaria. She escaped the imprisonment of the nuns, went before the court and was executed, despite protests from her fellow nuns.

Rudericus (Roderick) and Salomon (Solomon)

March 13, 857. Roderick was a priest in Cabra who was betrayed by his Muslim brother, who falsely accused him of converting to Islam and then returning to Christianity (i.e. apostasy). In prison he met his fellow-martyr, Salomon. They were both executed in Córdoba.

Rogellus and Servus-Dei

September 16, 852. A monk and his young disciple executed in Córdoba for publicly denouncing Islam inside a mosque. They were the first Christian martyrs executed under Muhammad I.

Sancho

(also known as Sanctius, Sancius) June 5, 851. Born in Albi in Septimania (modern-day France), he was taken to Córdoba in Al-Andalus as a prisoner of war, educated at the royal court, and enrolled in the guards of the Emir. He was executed by impalement for his refusal to embrace Islam, the very model of a soldier saint.

Sandila

(also known as Sandalus, Sandolus, Sandulf) September 3 c. 855. Executed in Córdoba under the Emirate.

Sisenandus

July 16, 851. Born in Badajoz in Estremadura, he became a deacon in the church of St Acisclus in Córdoba. He was beheaded under Abd ar-Rahman II.

Theodemir

July 25, 851. A monk executed in Córdoba in Al-Andalus under Abd ar-Rahman II.

Witesindus

(also known as Witesind) 855. A Christian layman from Cabra, who had converted to Islam but later recanted; he was executed for apostasy.

SOURCE : https://saintscatholic.blogspot.com/2014/03/martyrs-of-cordoba.html

Sant' Argimiro di Cordova Martire

28 giugno

Martirologio Romano: A Córdova nell’Andalusia in Spagna, sant’Argimíro, martire, che, monaco di ormai avanzata età, durante la persecuzione dei Mori, sotto il regno di Maometto II, ricevette dal giudice l’ordine di rinnegare Cristo e, rimasto fermo nel confessare la sua fede, fu posto vivo sul cavalletto e trapassato con la spada.

Nato a Cabra da famiglia cristiana, Argimiro esercitò sotto la dominazione musulmana l'ufficio di censore a Cordova. Costretto a dimettersi dalla carica, probabilmente per sfuggire alle persecuzioni contro i cristiani, forse a quella bandita da Mohamed I, si ritirò in un convento. Denunciato, Argimiro rifiutò di abiurare. La risoluta confessione della sua fede gli valse prima il carcere e infine il supplizio: torturato sul cavalletto, fu decapitato il 28 giugno 856. Il suo corpo fu impalato, esposto in pubblico e finalmente deposto nella chiesa di Sant'Acisclo dove ne fu fatta ricognizione nel 1615. Nel Martirologio Romano la festa si celebra il 28 Giugno; a Cordova il 7 Luglio.

Autore: Pietro Altabella Gracia

SOURCE : http://santiebeati.it/dettaglio/59920

Argimiro de Cabra y de Córdoba, Santo

Mártir, 28 de junio

Por: Alban Butler | Fuente: La Vida de los Santos

Monje Mártir

Martirologio Romano: En Córdoba, en lAndalucía, España, san Argimiro, mártir, que en la persecución bajo los sarracenos en tiempo de Mohamed II, siendo monje, y ya avanzado en edad, fue invitado por el juez a negar a Cristo, pero, por peseverar en la confesión de la fe, fue atormentado en el potro y finalmente traspasado por una lanza. († 856)

Etimológicamente: Argimiro = Ejercito famoso, viene del germano

Breve Biografia

Argimiro nació de padres cristianos, en Cabra, antiguamente Egabro, en la provincia de Córdoba, Andalucía, en el sur de España, cuando el país estaba bajo la dominación de los moros musulmanes. El rey infiel llamó a Argimiro para que desempeñase la función de censor en Córdoba: era un puesto importante. Después de muchos años de servicio, presentó su dimisión por escrito, en hermoso estilo, y se retiró a un convento de la misma Córdoba para servir a Dios y ganar su salvación eterna, en el reposo de la oración y la contemplación. En la ciudad se desató la persecución contra los cristianos. No tardó Argimiro en ser denunciado y llevado ante el juez, quien le pidió que abjurase de su religión, a lo que se rehusó. Al valiente confesor, que ya estaba entrado en años, se le torturó sobre el potro y ahí mismo se le atravesó con la espada, el 28 de junio del 856, bajo el reinado de Mahoma II (852-886). El cuerpo del santo estuvo varios días expuesto en el patíbulo. Finalmente, fue recogido y sepultado en la iglesia de San Acisclo, cerca del mártir Perfecto.

VIDAS DE LOS SANTOS Edición 1965

Autor: Alban Butler (†)

Traductor: Wilfredo Guinea, S.J.

Editorial: COLLIER´S INTERNATIONAL - JOHN W. CLUTE, S. A.

SOURCE : http://es.catholic.net/op/articulos/36274/argimiro-de-cabra-y-de-crdoba-santo.html#modal

Argimiro. Cabra (Córdoba), p. s. ix – Córdoba, 28.VI.856. Monje y mártir mozárabe cordobés.

Según el cronista Ibn Űayyān, la renta anual del emirato en tiempos de al-Űakam I (796-822) era de 600.000 dinares, y pasó a un millón bajo ‘Abd al-Raűmān II (822-852), lo que supuso un incremento de la presión fiscal que, probablemente, debió de estar en la base del alzamiento mozárabe de Córdoba y en la mayor parte de las revueltas indígenas de finales del siglo ix. Los historiadores no han dejado constancia alguna de oposición mozárabe contra el poder central hasta ‘Abd al-Raűmān II, cuando alentados por las exhortaciones del clérigo Eulogio —perteneciente a una acomodada familia mozárabe— y de su amigo Álvaro de Córdoba —rico burgués cristiano, de origen judío—, se constituyó un partido de oposición formado por clérigos y laicos.

Se desató entre la comunidad cristiana de Córdoba una oleada de exaltación mística que arrastró al suplicio a numerosos mártires voluntarios —si bien la mayoría de estos aspirantes sólo fueron azotados o encarcelados—, pese al concilio reunido en Córdoba por el emir, poco antes de su muerte, presidido por el metropolitano Recafredo, que desaprobó tal conducta. Tales sucesos no concluyeron hasta el reinado de su sucesor Muűammad I (852-886).

Poco se conoce de la vida de Argimiro; al parecer, hombre noble, entrado en años y tal vez convertido al islam. Habría ejercido en su población natal algún cargo oficial de cierta importancia. Removido del mismo, se refugió en un cenobio cordobés, profesando como monje, y como esto significaba haber apostatado —lo que, en manera alguna podía hacer un mozárabe, es decir, retornar al cristianismo—, fue encerrado y aherrojado en un oscuro calabozo. Compareció ante el juez (o qādī), que comenzó halagándole para que volviera al islam, con argumentos que se desconocen, pero que no serían muy diferentes de los empleados por cierto juez, recogidos por al-Juˆsani, en parecidas circunstancias: “[d]esdichado, ¿quién te ha metido en la cabeza que tú mismo pidas tu propia muerte sin haber delinquido en nada?”. Todo fue inútil, por lo que fue llevado al cadalso y atravesado por la espada.

Días después, un monje reclamó sus restos, que fueron sepultados en la iglesia de San Acisclo, junto a los de éste y de Perfecto, uno de los primeros mártires cordobeses.

Escribieron sobre Argimiro, entre otros, Eulogio, en su Memoriale Sanctorum, redactado poco antes de su ejecución, el 11 de marzo de 859, y el norteamericano Edward P. Colbert, en su ensayo The Martyrs of Córdoba (1962).

Fuentes y bibl.: Informaciones aportadas por A. Bachs i Galí (Barcelona), periodista-investigador.

E. P. Colbert, The Martyrs of Córdoba (850-859). A study of the sources, Washington, The Catolic University of America Press, 1962; J. Vives, “Argimiro”, en Q. Aldea Vaquero, T. Marín Martínez y J. Vives Gatell (dirs.), Diccionario de Historia Eclesiástica de España, vol. I, Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

SOURCE : http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/45730/argimiro

San Argimiro, monje y mártir

Manuel Nieto Cumplido en su libro titulado “Córdoba: patrimonio de santidad” relata la vida de este mártir cordobés destacando de él que era un varón noble, de edad avanzada cuya familia era natural de Cabra. Ejerció el cargo de censor o juez de la comunidad cristiana en Córdoba por nombramiento de Abd al Rahman II. Apartado de la Administración se retiró a un monasterio. Acusado por algunos musulmanes fue llevado ante el juez y condenado a prisión. Al no renegar de su fe fue colgado de un patíbulo vivo y finalmente le atravesaron la espada el 28 de junio del 856.

SOURCE : https://www.diocesisdecordoba.com/santo-del-dia/san-argimiro-monje-y-martir

San Argimiro de Cabra y de Córdoba, Mártir

Junio 28

Martirologio Romano: En Córdoba, en la provincia hispánica de Andalucía, san Argimiro, mártir, que en la persecución bajo los sarracenos en tiempo de Mohamed II, siendo monje, y ya avanzado en edad, fue invitado por el juez a negar a Cristo, pero, por peseverar en la confesión de la fe, fue atormentado en el potro y finalmente traspasado por una lanza (856).

Etimología: Argimiro = Ejercito famoso, viene del germano

Argimiro, nació en Egabro, actual Cabra; y murió en Córdoba, el 28 de junio de 856. Fue un religioso mozárabe en Al-Andalus, venerado como santo con el nombre de San Argimiro o San Argimiro de Cabra.

Argimiro fue durante algún tiempo censor del emirato en Egabro, y al apartarse de la administración se retiró a un monasterio en Córdoba. Fue conducido ante un juez acusado de profesión del cristianismo y haber injuriado al profeta Mahoma. Tras algunos días detenido y encerrado en prisión, fue reconducido al juez que se esforzó en convencerlo pero no lograron hacerle cambiar de parecer.

Se le condenó a que fuese decapitado, sucediendo el martirio el 28 de junio de 856, día en el que la Iglesia lo conmemora.

Su cuerpo permaneció en el patíbulo durante muchos días hasta que por orden del juez fue trasladado a la basílica de San Acisclo, cerca de su sepulcro y el de San Perfecto.

Autor: Xavier Villalta

Publicadas por Cecill Torres a la/s viernes, junio 28, 2013 

Etiquetas: Santoral de Junio

SOURCE : http://vidas-santas.blogspot.com/2013/06/san-argimiro-de-cabra-y-de-cordoba.html

La imagen de san Argimiro se recupera para el Santuario de la Virgen de la Sierra

02.02.19 - Escrito por: Redacción / @anrajimo

El Santuario de Nuestra Señora, María Santísima de la Sierra, celebra la tradicional y centenaria romería de la Candelaria presentando un altar con las imágenes de los santos egabrenses Arcesindo y Argimiro, a ambos lados del altar mayor de nuestra patrona.

Según podemos leer en la obra Vidas de los Santos de A. Butler y la cita en el Memorial de los santos de san Eulogio, san Argimiro, fue un monje nacido en Cabra a finales del siglo VIII que fue martirizado bajo el reinado de Mohamed II, en el año 856 y cuya fiesta se celebra el 28 de junio.

En la fiesta de la Candelaria una imagen de este mártir egabrense ha sido recuperada al culto en el histórico Santuario de nuestra Patrona junto a la de san Arcesindo, otro de los santos que Cabra dio al martirologio de la Iglesia católica. En varias ocasiones hemos visto representados los santos mártires egabrenses junto a la Virgen de la Sierra, como en el Mes de Mayo dedicado a Ntra. Sra. de la Sierra del padre Pedro Pedrosa García (1904) en un grabado realizado por F. Mármol, donde se representa la imagen de Nuestra Señora de la Sierra y a ambos lados los santos mártires mozárabes Arcesindo, Rodrigo, Argimiro y Witesindo. Precisamente el Día 9º de este libro está dedicado al martirio de San Witesindo, San Argimiro y San Rodrigo y termina con la jaculatoria Reina de los Mártires - ruega por nosotros dedicada a la Virgen de la Sierra.

También en un grabado atribuido a Alfonso Santiago aparece la Virgen de la Sierra con San Rodrigo y San Argimiro, lo mismo que en los cuadros que se han situado en la nave de las antiguas capillas de la parroquia de la Asunción a los lados de una de las representaciones iconográficas más antiguas de la Virgen de la Sierra.

Según podemos leer en El testigo fiel (ver enlace) Argimiro nació de padres cristianos, en Cabra, antiguamente Egabro, en la provincia de Córdoba, Andalucía, en el sur de España, cuando el país estaba bajo la dominación de los moros musulmanes. El rey infiel llamó a Argimiro para que desempeñase la función de censor en Córdoba: era un puesto importante. Después de muchos años de servicio, presentó su dimisión por escrito, en hermoso estilo, y se retiró a un convento de la misma Córdoba para servir a Dios y ganar su salvación eterna, en el reposo de la oración y la contemplación.

Pero en la ciudad se desató la persecución contra los cristianos. No tardó Argimiro en ser denunciado y llevado ante el juez, quien le pidió que abjurase de su religión, a lo que se rehusó. Al valiente confesor, que ya estaba entrado en años, se le torturó sobre el potro y ahí mismo se le atravesó con la espada, el 28 de junio del 856, bajo el reinado de Mahoma II (852-886). El cuerpo del santo estuvo varios días expuesto en el patíbulo. Finalmente, fue recogido y sepultado en la iglesia de San Acisclo, cerca del mártir Perfecto. La noticia sobre el santo proviene de san Eulogio de Córdoba.

SOURCE : http://www.laopinioncofrade.com/ampliar.php?sec=especiales&sub=colaboraciones&art=72&fbclid=IwAR0WHCG4o3K1OWpdU0oUXiuFapYJ-8-sVzG7FqcrzU1z5WFEFDqtOgALcB88

Voir aussi : http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/oecordob.htm

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