Saints Nunilo and Alodia (died c. 842/51) were a pair of child martyrs from Huesca. Born of a mixed marriage, they supposedly eschewed the Islam of their father in favour of their mother's Christianity. Legend stated that they were executed by the Muslim authorities of Huesca in accordance with sharia law as apostates. Their feast day is 22 October.
Carving of Nunilo and Alodia on the collegiate church of Alquézar. The base of the carving reads "Nonyla", but her sister's name has been broken off.
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 the monastery of Leyre in the tenth and eleventh centuries, when a portal was fashioned bearing their image, which still survives.
The Translatio sanctarum 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; they were later contained in the Leyre Casket, an ornate ivory casket produced in 1004/5 in Muslim Cordoba.[1] There are some discrepancies between the account of the martyrdom in the Translatio and that recorded by Eulogius of Córdoba.
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^Julie Harris, 'Muslim Ivories in Christian Hands: The Leire Casket in Context', Art History, 18 (1995), 213-21.
Catlos, Brian A. The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050–1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN0-521-82234-3.
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