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Saint Acisclus of Córdoba

statue of Saint Acislus, date and artist unknown; church of San Juan Bautista, Alcalá de Chivert, Spain; photographed on 17 April 2009 by Columbusalbus; image swiped from Wikimedia Commons Also known as

Aciscle
Acisclo
Ascylus
Iscle
Ocysellus

17 November

Profile

Brother of Saint Victoria of Cordoba. Martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian. After their deaths, their home was turned into a church. They have an office in the Mozabic Liturgy, and devotion to them is widespread throughout Spain and France.

Born

at Cordoba, Spain

beheaded in 304

Pre-Congregation

Cordoba, Spain

Representation

with Saint Victoria
wearing a crown of roses

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Roman Martyrology, 1914 edition

books
- Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
- Oxford Dictionary of Saints, by David Hugh Farmer
- Saints and Their Attributes, by Helen Roeder
- The Saints: A Concise Biographical Dictionary, by John Coulson

other sites in english

images
- Wikimedia Commons

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

fonti in italiano
- Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
- Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

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