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Nave Topical Bible
• Nereus
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Nereus
Fausset Bible Dictionary
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Nereus
Hitchcock Bible Names
• Nereus
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Nereus, Saint
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
• Nereus
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Nereus (2)
• Nereus, St.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Sts. Nereus and Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancratius
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• ܢܺܐܪܳܘܣ
• Νηρεύς

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.