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NONNA (2), one of the three daughters ofGorgonia, the sister of Gregory Nazianzen,called after her maternal grandmother, whosevirtues she appears to have been very far fromimitating, as she and her sister Eugenia are spokenof by Gregory Nazianzen in his will as un-deserving of notice from their reprehensible life.This may however mean no more than that,having been devoted to a life of virginity bytheir mother (Greg. Naz. Orat. 11, p. 180), theydeclined to accept such a vocation, for whichthey were not fitted. (Tillemont, Mem. Eccles.tom. ix. p. 704, note xvi.) [E. V.]

NONNA (3), ST. (Nonnita, Non, Nonn),mother of St. David. A legendary life of herexisted A.D. 1281, in the service book of herchurch at Alternun, in Cornwall. This is closeby Davidstow, and. St. David's Welsh name,Dewi, is preserved in the local pronunciation,Dewstow. Her feast day was 3rd March, twodays after the date of her son's death. Severalplaces in Cornish parishes, such as Creed andPelynt, and in Bradstone, just across the Tamarin Devon, were sacred to her, and a mysteryplay written in her honour existed in Brittanybefore the 12th century (Buhez Santez Nonn.ed. Sionnet). St. Nun's pool in Alternun wasfamous for the cure of lunacy. An inscriptionat Tregony (Hiibner's Inscriptiones BritonniaeChristianae , No. 10) reads Nonnita, Ercili, Viri-cati, tris fili Ercilinci, which shews the existenceof the name in Cornwall. As Cornwall andSouth Wales were evidently under the samedynasty, and kindred chiefs ruled in Brittany,the wandering Celtic saints found a home in eachwithout difficulty. Bees gives the names ofseveral churches in Wales dedicated to her, allin the immediate neighbourhood of churchesascribed to St. David. (Haddan and Stubbs, ii.98; William of Worcester, 164; Rees, WelshSaints, 162-166, 180, 200, 341.) [C. W. B.]

NONNICHIUS, (Nunechics), 10th bishopof Nantes, A.D. 472, signed the acts of the coun-cil of Vannes, and had a converted Jew speciallyrecommended to him by Sidonius Apollinaris(Migne, Bat. Lat. t. lviii. 611, Ep. 13; Binius,Cone. ii. 421; Gall. Chr. xiv. 797; Tillem. xvi.234; Ceillier, Aut Sacr. x. 394). [J. G.]

NONNICHIUS (2) II. (Nunnichius Moni-chius, Monnichius, Manochus, Donichius),bishop of Nantes, succeeding his cousin Felix(117) in 582, and thought by the Sammarthani,but without grounds, to have been the count ofLimoges in the following article {Gall. Chr. xiv.800; Greg. Tur. H. F. vi, 15). Gregory ofTours ( Mirac . S. Martin, iv. 27) relates that hebrought his infirm servant to the church of St.Martin at Tours on a feast day of the saint, andafter the services took him home cured. Thesame author {H. F. viii. 43) mentions that theson of Nonnichius was suspected of being con-cerned in the death of Domnola, the wife ofNectarius. Nonnichus is mentioned by VenantiusFortunatus in his Life of Germanus (cap. 60 inFatr, Lat. lxxxviii. 472). [C. H.]

NONNICHIUS (3), count of Limoges in thereign of Chilperic, occasioned the spread of false

accusations against Charterins bishop of Perigneux, 582. Two months afterwards he died(Greg. Tur. H. F. vi. 22 ; Aimoin, G. F. iii. 48in Bouquet, iii. 89; Gall. Chr. ii. 1453).

[C. H.]

NONNITUS (1), bishop of Gerona, in Cata-lonia, succeeded Joannes Biclarensis, 621, anddied 633 (Gams, Ser. Episc . 32). He was amonk, and continued to rule by example ratherthan command (Ildefonsus, Be Vir. III. c. 30, ap.Migne, Pat. Lat. xevi. 203; Fleury, II. E.xxxvii. c. 46 ; Ceillier, Aut. Sacr . xi. 699).

[J. G.]

NONNITUS (2), said to have been the firstbishop of Seville after the Saracen conquest.(Esp. Sag. ix. 235.) [F. D.j

NONNOSUS (1), son of Abraham, a priest,was sent by the emperor Justinian on an embassyto Caisus king of the Saracens, to Elesbaan,king of the Auxumites, and to the Homerites.After many dangers he returned and wrote ahistory of his journey, but we now possess onlyan abridgment by Photius {Cod. 3 ; Corp. Scrip.Hist. Byz. Bonn, 1829, pt. i. 478, sq.; Hoes-chelius, Bibl. Photii , Ant. 1611, pp. 6-7; Fabi*i-cius, Bibl. Gr. vi. 239), omitting the fabulousand condensing details. His father Abraham,and grandfather Nonnosus, had been sent onsimilar missions. He lived about A.D. 540(Cave, Hist. Lit. i. 519; Ceillier, Aut. Sacr. xi.280; Smith, Diet. Gr. and M. Biog. ii. 1208).

[J. G.J

NONNOSUS (2), provost of a monastery onMount Soracte, to whom miracles were attri-buted. (Greg. Mag. Dial. i. 7 ; Epp. lib. iii. ind.xi. ep. 51 in Patr. Lat. lxxvii.; Ceill. xi. 474;Dupin, i. 580, ed. 1722.) [C. H.]

NONNOSUS (3), a person of station, whoserequest for a certain possession in 591 popeGregory the Great intends to comply with(lib. i. ind. ix. ep. 22; Jaffe, B. P. num. 725).

[C. H.]

NONNUS (1), one of the leading inhabitantsof the town of Zeugma, to whom, with others,Theodoret addressed a consolatory letter {Ep. 125)in the midst of the persecutions subsequent tothe tk Latrocinium,” 449, encouraging them intheir struggle for the maintenance of theorthodox faith, which for their instruction hesets forth distinctly, guarding them from theopposite errors of Nestorius and Eutyches.

[E. V.]

NONNUS (2) of Panopolis. The name isvery common, being properly an Egyptian titleequivalent to Saint. Consequently confusion hasarisen between this writer and others of thesame name. He has been identified, with someprobability, with a Nonnus whose son is men-tioned by Synesius {Ep. ad Anastas. 42, ad Pyl.102); and, with very little probability, withthe deacon Nonnus, secretary at the council ofChalcedon, A.D. 451 ; or Nonnus, the bishop ofEdessa, elected at the synod of Ephesus, A.D.449; or lastly with Nonnus the commentatoron Gregory Nazianzen (vide Bentley, Phalarisad in.).

Life. —Of his life we have no details. He wasa native of Panopolis in Egypt; cf. Eudoeia, s. v.

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