Saint Nicholas TaveIic and Companions
S. Nicolaus Tavelic et socii
1114 Martyrs Memorial
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Nicholas was born at Sibenik in Croatia about the year 1340; for several years he preached the Gospel in Bosnia, together with Friar Deodatus of Rodez in the province of Aquitaine; both went to Palestine in 1384. Then, with their confreres Stephen of Cunes near Genoa and Peter of Darbonne, they composed a defence of the Christian faith which, after seeking help in prayer, they delivered before the Cadi of Jerusalem in 1391. Bidden to retract what they had proclaimed, they refused, and as a result were cast into chains and condemned to death; their bodies were dismembered and burned. They were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970.