unless stated otherwise.
Saint Nabor And Saint Felix.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 12 July.
Simple.
Red Vestments.
The Virgin Mary and Saints Nabor and Felix;
Francis of Assisi; Claire of Assisi; John the Baptist;
Mary Magdalene; Catherine of Alexandria.
Artist: Orazio Samacchini (1532–1577).
Date: Circa 1570.
Collection: Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy.
Source/Photographer: Santie Beati
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Nabor and Saint Felix, who had Saint Ambrose for their panegyrist, received The Palm of Martyrdom at Milan under the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 303 A.D.
Mass: Salus autem.
English: The Chapel of Saint Nabor and Saint Felix,
Bad Krozingen-Schmidhofen, Germany.
Deutsch: Die Glocke Kapelle St. Felix u. Nabor,
Bad Krozingen-Schmidhofen, Deutschland.
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Nabor and Felix (☩ 303 A.D.) were Christian Martyrs thought to have been killed during The Great Persecution under the Roman Emperor Diocletian. A tomb in Milan is believed to contain their Relics.
In the Apocryphal “Acts of Saints Nabor and Felix” (which are imitated from The Acts of other Martyrs (such as those of Saint Firmus and Saint Rusticus), the two are said to have been Roman soldiers from Mauretania Caesariensis, serving under Maximian. They were condemned in Milan and executed by decapitation in Laus Pompeia (Lodi Vecchio).
A pair of Saints, “Nabor and Felix”, were also said to have been Martyred at Nicopolis, in Lesser Armenia, in 320 A.D. alongside Saints “Januarius and Marinus”. They may be distinct, or it may have been a merging of the story of the Italian Saints with the local couple, Januarius and Pelagia.
The Chapel of Saints Felix and Nabor,
Bad Krozingen, Germany.
© Kur und Bäder GmbH Bad Krozingen.
Illustration: MAGNIFY
The Roman Catholic Church recognises Nabor and Felix as Martyr Saints, inserting them, under the date of 12 July, in The Roman Martyrology, its official List of Saints.
They were also included in The General Roman Calendar from before the 12th-Century, with a Feast Day that was reduced to a Commemoration when Saint John Gualbert was added to The Calendar in 1595.
The 1969 Revision removed mention of Nabor and Felix from The General Roman Calendar, but the rules in The Roman Missal, published in the same year, authorise Celebration of their Mass on their Feast Day everywhere, unless, in some locality, an Obligatory Celebration is assigned to that day.
The following Text is from MAGNIFY
The Patron Saints of this Chapel in Schmidhofen, Germany, Saints Nabor and Felix, were Roman soldiers who were believed to have been Martyred for their Christian Faith in 304 A.D. in Milan, Italy. The unusual Patronage was probably conferred via the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Trudpert, Münstertal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, to Schmidhofen.
The first documentary reference to this Chapel dates to 1370. In Schmidhofen, people would Pray for the Intercession of Saints Nabor and Felix, when they had pain in their ears.
In any event, the two Saints were considered to have brought about the miraculous healing of two people, who were hard of hearing, at the beginning of the 18th-Century. The site therefore became a lively centre of Pilgrimage. These Pilgrimages encouraged Saint Trudpert Monastery to rebuild the Chapel in 1759.
