Nunilo and Alodia

Saints Nunilo and Alodia (died c. 842/51) were a pair of child martyrs from Huesca. Born of a mixed marriage, they eschewed the Islam of their father in favour of their mother's Christianity. They were executed by the Muslim authorities of Huesca in accordance with sharia law as apostates. Their feast day is October 22. 
The girls were arrested during the persecutions conducted by Abd ar-Rahman II, the emir of Córdoba. When they refused to disavow their faith they were placed in a brothel and later beheaded. Their relics were revered at Leyre in the tenth and eleventh centuries, when a portal was fashioned bearing their image, which still survives. 
The Translatio sanctorum Nunilonis et Alodiae, a short account of the translation of their relics to the monastery of Leyre in 851, survives in two tenth-century manuscripts. The children's relics were translated from Huesca to Leyre by Oneca, the wife of Íñigo Arista, King of Navarre. There are some discrepancies between the account of the martyrdom in the Translatio and that recorded by Eulogius of Córdoba. 
== References ==
* Catlos, Brian A. The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050–1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0 521 82234 3.
* Collins, Roger. The Basques. London: Blackwell Publishing, 1990. ISBN 0 631 13478 6.
Category:Biographies of multiple people
Category:9th-century Christian saints
Category:Spanish saints
Category:Spanish Roman Catholic saints
Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism from Islam
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Category:9th-century Christian martyrs
Category:Spanish former Muslims
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