Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VIII, 1952 Saints & hagiography Saints

Ninfa, Saint, Martyr

NINFA, SANTA, MARTIRE

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NINFA, Saint, Martyr. - Unknown to the ancient Martyrologies until the 9th century; the first notice of her is in the Lib. Pont., which in the life of Leo IV (847-55) mentions a church at Porto dedicated to her.

Perhaps a St. N. never existed, and the titular of the church is nothing other than a corruption of the topographical name "ad nymphas Catabassi," where there actually stood a church dedicated to Martha, the wife of the martyr Marius, killed on the Via Cornelia, and transformed in the Middle Ages into St. N. According to a late recension of the Passio s. Mamiliani (BHL, 6254), N. was the daughter of the prefect of Palermo, Aurelian, imprisoned and then killed for the faith. In the Roman Martyrology N. is commemorated on 10 November.

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BIBL.: Acta SS. Septembris, V, Paris 1868, pp. 45-54; Novembris, IV, Brussels 1925, pp. 327-29; 373-83; Lanzoni, pp. 545-49; Martyr. Romanum, p. 508.

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By Agostino Amore

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII (1952), coll. 1890–1891.

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Amore, Agostino. “Ninfa, santa, martire.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, coll. 1890–1891. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/ninfa-santa-martire.

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Amore, Agostino. “Ninfa, santa, martire.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, coll. 1890–1891. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ninfa-santa-martire.

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@incollection{ec8_ninfa_santa_martire,
  author    = {Amore, Agostino},
  title     = {Ninfa, santa, martire},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VIII},
  pages     = {1890--1891},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ninfa-santa-martire}
}

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