Saint Argimir
Martyr à Cordoue (+ 856)
Martyrologe romain
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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/
Also known as
Argimiro
Argimirus
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Government official in Cordoba, Spain during
the Moorish occupation,
but he lost his position due to being a Christian. Monk.
Soon after his profession he
responded to inquiries by renouncing Islam and declaring his loyalty to
Christ. Martyr.
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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the administration of justice and withdrawn to a monastery when certain Muslims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
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.
SOURCE : http://santiebeati.it/dettaglio/59920
Argimiro de Cabra y de Córdoba, Santo
Monje Mártir
Breve Biografia
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.
Voir aussi : http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/oecordob.htm
