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Nereus

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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A Christian at Rome whom Paul salutes (Romans 16:15). Of Philologus' and Julia's household, Origen guesses. Tradition makes him to have been beheaded at Terracina under Nero, and his ashes deposited in the church of Nereo and Archilleo at Rome.

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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Nereus'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fbd/​n/nereus.html. 1949.
 
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