Nestor of Magydos

Little is known about Saint Nestor, also known as Saint Nestor of Perge or Hieromartyr Nestor of Magydos, other than that he was Bishop of Magydos in Pamphylia, in what is now modern Turkey. His courage and authority were so noteworthy that a Roman magistrate uttered these words: "Until we have got the better of the bishop, we shall be powerless against the Christians."Lives of the Saints by Omer Englebert, 1951 and Barnes & Noble Books, 1994 He was arrested under Emperor Decius, and sentenced to death by the local Roman governor, Pollio or Epolius of Lycia, after refusing to sacrifice to the pagan gods of the state. His feast day is February 26 in the Roman Catholic Church and February 28 in the Orthodox Church.
==References==
==External links==
*Index of Roman Catholic Saints
*St. Nestor
*St. Patrick's Church, Washington, D.C.: St. Nestor of Perge
*Hieromartyr Nestor the Bishop of Magydos in Pamphylia Orthodox icon and synaxarion
Category:3rd-century deaths
Nestor
Category:Eastern Catholic saints
Category:3rd-century Christian saints
it:Nestore di Magydos
sr:Нестор Магидијски