Nunio and Alodio

Nunio and Alodio or Nunilo and Alodis (died "c".842) 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 exectued by the Muslim authorities of Huesca in accordance with sharia law as apostates. Their relics were revered at Leyre in the tenth and eleventh centuries, when a surviving portal was fashioned bearing their image.

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

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*Collins, Roger. "The Basques". London: Blackwell Publishing, 1990. ISBN 0 631 13478 6.