NESTOR, Saint, Martyr. - He is commemorated in the Hieronymian Martyrology on February 25, in the Roman Martyrology on the 26th, and among the Greeks on the 28th.

The original Passion in Greek, composed in the 4th century, is lost, but fairly good versions exist both in Greek and in Latin. N. was bishop of Magydus in Pamphylia; when the persecution of Decius broke out, he persuaded his people to flee to the mountains so as not to expose themselves to the danger of falling away, while he himself remained at his post. Seized by the guards, he was brought before the tribunal of the irenarch of the city, who after interrogating him sent him to Perge, to the governor Pollio. The latter had him tortured on the aculeus and then condemned him to crucifixion.

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BIBL.: Tillemont, III, pp. 351-53, 713 ff.; Acta SS. Februarii, III, Paris 1865, pp. 632-35; P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, Osservazioni sopra alcuni atti di martiri, in Nuovo bull. arch. crist., 10 (1904), pp. 8-16; id., Attorno al più antico testo del Martyrium v. Theodori tironis, in Note agiografiche, III (Studi e testi, 22), Rome 1909, pp. 97-101; P. Allard, Storia critica delle persecuzioni, Italian trans., II, Florence 1935, pp. 393-99; Martyr. Hieronymianum, p. 116; Martyr. Romanum, p. 77.

Agostino Amore

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