(ABOUT A.D. 302.)
[Roman Martyrology and Greek Menæa.]
S. Nicander flourished in the reign of Diocletian, in Egypt. He visited
the Christian confessors in their dungeons, and ministered to their
necessities; and when they suffered, he gathered their ashes and
bones, and reverently buried them. This devotion could not long remain
unobserved by the heathen, and he was denounced to the governor, who
sentenced him to death.