EPOLIUS, whom the emperor Decius had appointed governor of Lycia,
Pamphylia, and Phrygia, sought to make his court to that prince by
surpassing his colleagues in the rage and cruelty with which he
persecuted the meek disciples of Christ. At that time Nestor, bishop of
Sida in Pamphylia, (as Le Quien demonstrates, not of Perge, or of
Mandis, or Madigis, as some by mistake affirm,) was distinguished in
those parts for his zeal in propagating the faith, and for the sanctity
of his life. His reputation reached the governor, who sent an Irenarch
to apprehend him. The martyr was conducted to Perge, and there
crucified, in imitation of the Redeemer of the world, whom he preached.
His triumph happened in 250. His Latin Acts, given by the Bollandists,
are to be corrected by those in Greek, found among the manuscript acts
of Saints, honored by the Greeks in the month of February in the king's
library at Paris, Cod. 1010, written in the tenth century.
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