Saint Indaletius ( es, San Indalecio) is venerated as the
patron saint
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of
Almería
Almería (, , ) is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. It lies on southeastern Iberia on the Mediterranean Sea. Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. The city gr ...
,
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
. Tradition makes him a
Christian
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missionary of the 1st century, during the
Apostolic Age
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. He evangelized the town of
Urci Urci was an ancient settlement in southeastern Roman Hispania mentioned by Pomponius Mela, Pliny the Elder, and Claudius Ptolemy. The writings of these historians indicate that the city was located in the hinterland of what is now Villaricos, Spain ...
(today
Pechina), near the present-day city of Almería, and became its first bishop. He may have been martyred at Urci.
He is one of the group of
Seven Apostolic Men
According to Christian tradition, the Seven Apostolic Men (''siete varones apostólicos'') were seven Christian clerics ordained in Rome by Saints Peter and Paul and sent to evangelize Spain. This group includes Torquatus, Caecilius, Ctesiphon, ...
(''siete varones apostólicos''), seven Christian clerics ordained in
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
by Saints
Peter and
Paul and sent to evangelize Spain. Besides Indaletius, this group includes Sts.
Torquatus,
Caecilius,
Ctesiphon
Ctesiphon ( ; Middle Persian: 𐭲𐭩𐭮𐭯𐭥𐭭 ''tyspwn'' or ''tysfwn''; fa, تیسفون; grc-gre, Κτησιφῶν, ; syr, ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢThomas A. Carlson et al., “Ctesiphon — ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modi ...
,
Euphrasius,
Hesychius, and
Secundius (''Torcuato, Cecilio, Tesifonte, Eufrasio, Hesiquio y Segundo'').
Veneration
In 1084, emissaries of
Sancho Ramírez, King of Aragon and Navarre translated
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Indaletius’ relics to
San Juan de la Peña near
Jaca
Jaca (; in Aragonese: ''Chaca'' or ''Xaca'') is a city of northeastern Spain in the province of Huesca, located near the Pyrenees and the border with France. Jaca is an ancient fort on the Aragón River, situated at the crossing of two great ea ...
against the will of the Christian communities in
Seville
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and Urci. Some of his relics still rest in an urn in the main altar of the
cathedral of Jaca
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It is the first Romanesque cathedral built in Aragon ...
.
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Other relics associated with Indaletius are claimed to have been placed below the altar of the
Cathedral of Almería and at the Conciliar Seminary of San Indalecio de Almería (''Seminario Conciliar de San Indalecio de Almería'').
References
External links
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1st-century Christian martyrs