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tania (Setif), Ant. Itin. 24. 7; Ptol. iv. 2. 24.Shaw, Trav. p. 52. He was present at the Con-ference, A.D. 411, about which time St. Augus-tine wrote to him, asking his forgiveness for notsending to him at his request his brother, adeacon named Lucillus, to serve in the dioceseof Sitifi, as he was the only one that he hadwho could speak Latin. Navatus appears tohave attended the council of Carthage, A.D.419, and he may have been the same man as oneof whom we hear in a letter from Augustine toDarius, a.d. 429, though Ruinart thinks thatthere were two bishops of Sitifi of the samename (Carth. Coll. i. 2. 143; Hardouin, Cone. i.1249; Aug. Ep. 84, 229: Morcelli, Afr. Chr .i. 283). [H.W.P.]

NAVIGIUS, brother of St. Augustine. Hewas one of the party assembled at the country-house of Verecundus in 386, and an interlocutorin the dialogues held there, Contra Academicos ,Be Ordine , De Beata Vita. He was present atMonnica’s death at Ostia in 387, on which occa-sion his affectionate wish that his mother couldhave died in her own country met with hersilent reproof. (Aug. Conf. ix. 11; c. Acad.lib. i. c. 2, § 5; Beat. Vit. cap. i. § 6, ii. §§ 7,12, iii. §§ 19, 20; Ord. lib. i. cap. 3, § 7.)

[H. W. P.]

NAVVIAS, a Saracen king at Damascus, whodedicated a basilica for his own people there,leaving the Christians the church of St. JohnBaptist, according to a work attributed to St.Jerome, but belonging to a period not earlierthan the seventh century. (Hieron. Loc. inAct. Apost. in Bat. Lat. xxiii. 1298, 1300;Tillem. xii. 634.) [C. H.]

NAZARAEI. [Nasaraei.]

NAZARAEI, a name given by St. GregoryNazianzen to the monks in allusion to the Naza-rites of the old dispensation. (Greg. Naz. Carm.lib. I. sec. 2, in Migne’s Bat . Graec. t. 37, col.745.) [G. T. S.]

NAZARIUS (1), June 12, a soldier andmartyr at Rome in the persecution of Diocletianwith three others (Mart. Bom ., Adon.; Ceill. x.527). [G. T. S.]

NAZARIUS (2), July 28, a martyr, whosebody was found by St. Ambrose in a gardenoutside the city after the death of the emperorTheodosius in 395. He transported the body tothe Basilica of the Apostles, which was near theRoman gate of Milan, and treated it after themanner of the bodies of Gervasius and Protasius[Gervasius (1)]. Paulinus tells us in his VitaAmhrosii , num. 32, which is the primaryauthority for this martyr’s history, that he hadthere seen the body uncorrupted, and with hairfresh as if buried but a day or two. In theworks of St. Ambrose (Migne, B. L. xvii. 715)there is a sermon, Serm. lv., falsely ascribed tohim, on the natal day of Nazarius and Celsus.It is evidently of a later date, as it speaks of hismartyrdom under Nero, whereas Paulinus tellsus that no one knew when he suffered. TheBollandists have, however, devoted more thanthirty pages to a recital of his perfectly fabu-lous acts (AA. SS. Boll. Jul. vi. 503-534.)Paulinus Nol. mentions him, Boem . xxvii., cf.

Migne, P. L. lxi. 658. Ado, Usuard and Mart.Vet. Rom. confound him with another Nazarius,and celebrate his memory on June 12. (Seealso Tillem. ii. 75, 86, iv. 255, 586). [G. T. S.]

NAZARIUS (3), an abbat of Larins in the5th century. He is said to have been a discipleof St. Honoratus, afterwards bishop of Arles, andmay have succeeded Faustus as abbat when thelatter became bishop of Riez (circ. A.D. 462).According to old MSS. of the monastery he de-stroyed a shrine of Venus Impudica, situated on alittle hill on the mainland called Arlucus (Arluc),and there founded the nunnery which is believedto have flourished till the invasion of the Sara-cens, who destroyed Lerins, in the time of St.Porcarius (circ. a.d. 730). He was succeededby a Eucherius, and was commemorated atLerins, Nov. 18 (Barralis Salerna, ChronologiaLerinensis , ii. 79-80). [S. A. B.]

NEACHTAIN (Nectanus), of Cill-Uinoheand Fennor on the Boyne, nephew of St. Patrickby Lieraania, from whom he bore the name Mac-Leamhna. By Ussher (Brit. Eccl. Ant. vi. 382)he is called “Nechtain Episcopus,” and Colganfollows him (Acta SS. 717-18). His feast isMay 2. (M. Boneg. ; Four Mast, by O’Don. i.414, n. *.) [J. A.]

NEADIUS (Nec£5to$)r a monk, addressedwith others by Nilus (lib. ii. ep. 77 in Bat. Gr.lxxix.). [C. H.]

NEAMUS (Nea/ic5s) (Niceph. Call. K.E.xv iii.56 fin.), bishop of Jerusalem. [Amos.] [C. H.]

NEARCHUS, a soldier in Armenia, bywhom St. Polyeuctus was converted c. 251;martyred e. 260 (Boll. Acta SS. 13 Feb. ii. 652,22 Apr. iii. 12 ; Tillem. iii. 425, 427). [C. H.]

NEBRIDIUS (1), husband of Olympias, thecelebrated deaconess of Constantinople. At thetime of his marriage, which Tillemont placestowards the close of 384 A.D. ( Memoires , tom. xi.p. 419), he was young, but already high inofficial rank. In 382 and 383 A.D. he was count,or intendant of the imperial domain, and in 386A.d. prefect of Constantinople (see for referencesCod. Theod. tom. vi. p. 874, ed. Gothofred). Hedied within twenty months of his marriage(Pallad. p. 163), soon after June 29, a.d. 386.

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NEBRIDIUS (2), a Roman statesman andprefect of Gaul, then of the East, in the laterpart of the 4th century. He married the sisterof Aelia Flacilla the wife of Theodosius, andwas well known to Jerome. (Jerome, Ep.lxxix. 1, ed. Vail.; Ammianns Marc. xxi. 5,xxri. 7, xxix. 5.) [W. H. F.]

NEBRIDIUS (3), son of the foregoing, bya sister of the empress Flacilla, first wife ofTheodosius the Great. His father had been anintimate friend of St. Jerome —“ intima neces-situdine copulatus ” — (Hieron. Ep. 9). Hewas brought up by his aunt the empress—“ materterae nutritus sinu ”—in his uncle’spalace—“nutritus in palatio”—as the com-panion and fellow pupil of his young cousins,the future emperors Honorius and Arcadius—“ contubernalis et condiscipuslu Augustorum .