Modestus (martyr)
Modestus ( Latin for the humble ; * in the third century AD; † 304 in Lucania ) was a saint and martyr .
Life
Modestus was the educator and companion of Vitus (Veit). He was married to his nurse Crescentia . Because of the persecution of Christians under Emperor Diocletian , the couple is said to have fled to Lucania together with Vitus . There all three were captured and thrown into boiling oil. According to tradition, an angel took them out and brought them home. Only there the couple should have died together.
According to legend, martyrs under Diocletian; Festival, June 15th. The earliest evidence of his veneration of saints is offered by the “Martyrologium Hieronymianum” (Ed. De Rossi-Duchesne, 78: “In Sicilia, in Viti, in Modesti and in Crescentiae”).
iconography
During the 6th and 7th centuries, a merely legendary account of his martyrdom appeared, which according to other legends, especially the legend of Poitus, was based and decorated with accounts of fantastic miracles. It still exists in the various versions, but has no historical value.
Remembrance day
literature
- Franz Stentrup (Ed.): Historia translationis S. Viti . Munster 1906
- Bibliotheca hagiographica Latina , Vol. 2, 1257-1259; Supplementum (2nd edition), 308-309
- Johann Hubert Kessel: St. Veit, its history, veneration and pictorial representations . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland , 43 (1867), 152-183
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Modestus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saint, martyr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 304 |
| Place of death | Lucania |