Nabor

Cologne Cathedral - window of hll. Nabor and Felix (around 1330)

Former Abbey Church of St. Nabor in St. Avold, high altar with the statue of St. Nabor

Nabor († around 304) is a Christian martyr and Catholic saint . His life dates are largely unknown. He is usually together with St. Felix of Africa adored.

Vita

Nabor was a Roman soldier in Africa . He and his comrade Felix were beheaded in Lodi near Milan around the year 304 during the persecution of Christians by Emperor Diocletian .

Adoration of Nabor and Felix

After 313, Bishop Maternus transferred the remains of the two martyrs to Milan, where their own basilica was built in their honor . In this church, Ambrose also discovered the bones of Gervasius and Protasius .

On August 24, 765, Chrodegang , Minister of Karl Martell and Pippin the Short , brought relics of Saints Nabor and Felix to Lorraine in what would later become the Abbey of St. Nabor in St. Avold . In 1164 some of the relics of the two came to Cologne together with the bones of the Three Kings ; today they are in the Shrine of the Three Kings in Cologne Cathedral .

In 1959, two reliquaries with the heads of Saints Nabor and Felix were found in Namur . The silver busts were remade in Milan in 1709 for the heads, which were already kept separately at that time. During the French Revolution (1798) the relics came to Sant 'Ambrogio , but the bust reliquaries disappeared. Since they were stamped with the seals of the Franciscan convent of Milan in the 18th century, they were brought back from Namur to Milan with the other relics that remained there.

Memorial days

Her feast day is July 12th. The day of remembrance for the transfer of the bones to Cologne is 23 July.

Protection and invocation

Nabor and Felix are considered to be patrons against childhood diseases and are called when they have ear problems.

Church patronage and representations

The baroque Felix and Nabor chapel in Schmidhofen in Baden is dedicated to them. Representations of the two saints are extremely rare, but a late Gothic window is dedicated to them in Cologne Cathedral ; They can also be seen in the gable on the back of the Epiphany shrine .

Others

St. Felix is also venerated in Catalonia , where the city of Sant Feliu de Guíxols is named after him.

literature

Ekkart Sauser : Nabor and Felix: hl. Martyr. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 423-424. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

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↑ In 1960 Prof. Carlo Piana counted 129 bone parts from Nabor and Felix: 4 thighs, 4 shins, 4 calf bones, 4 ankle bones, 3 heel bones, 2 scaphoid bones of the feet, 3 cuboid bones, 6 metatarsal bones, 2 sacral bones, 4 pelvic bones, 4 humerus bones , 3 spokes, 4 cubits, 3 collarbones, 9 lumbar vertebrae, 8 dorsal vertebrae, 3 cervical vertebrae, 23 ribs, 36 bone parts that cannot be assigned with certainty (2 thigh bones, 3 shins and one humerus must be fake, as they already exist in Cologne) , from: Piana, Verbale di ri ecognizione medica delle ossadei Santi Nabore et Felice esistenti nella Basilica di S. Ambrogio in Milano, in: Ambrosius XXXVI, Suppl. to No. 6, 1960, p. 144 ff .; taken from: Ornamenta ecclesiae, Art and Artists of the Romanesque Period in Cologne, catalog for the exhibition of the Schnütgen Museum in the Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, vol. 2, pages 70, 71 and 78, Cologne 1985, editor Anton Legner
^ A. Calderini: La basilica milanese dei Ss. Nabore e Felice. In: Ambrosius , Rivista Liturgico-Pastorale XXXVI, Suppl. To No. 6, 1960, pp. 144 ff .; Nabore e Felice. In: Bibliotheca Sanctorum 1ff., Rome 1961 ff., Col. 689-693; Time Magazine Oct. 31, 1960 (with reliquary busts shown)

personal data
SURNAME	Nabor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Christian martyr and Catholic saint
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century
DATE OF DEATH	at 304
Place of death	Lodi near Milan

[1] In 1960 Prof. Carlo Piana counted 129 bone parts from Nabor and Felix: 4 thighs, 4 shins, 4 calf bones, 4 ankle bones, 3 heel bones, 2 scaphoid bones of the feet, 3 cuboid bones, 6 metatarsal bones, 2 sacral bones, 4 pelvic bones, 4 humerus bones , 3 spokes, 4 cubits, 3 collarbones, 9 lumbar vertebrae, 8 dorsal vertebrae, 3 cervical vertebrae, 23 ribs, 36 bone parts that cannot be assigned with certainty (2 thigh bones, 3 shins and one humerus must be fake, as they already exist in Cologne) , from: Piana, Verbale di ri ecognizione medica delle ossadei Santi Nabore et Felice esistenti nella Basilica di S. Ambrogio in Milano, in: Ambrosius XXXVI, Suppl. to No. 6, 1960, p. 144 ff .; taken from: Ornamenta ecclesiae, Art and Artists of the Romanesque Period in Cologne, catalog for the exhibition of the Schnütgen Museum in the Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, vol. 2, pages 70, 71 and 78, Cologne 1985, editor Anton Legner

[2] A. Calderini: La basilica milanese dei Ss. Nabore e Felice. In: Ambrosius , Rivista Liturgico-Pastorale XXXVI, Suppl. To No. 6, 1960, pp. 144 ff .; Nabore e Felice. In: Bibliotheca Sanctorum 1ff., Rome 1961 ff., Col. 689-693; Time Magazine Oct. 31, 1960 (with reliquary busts shown)