Bassus of Nice

{{Short description|French bishop, Roman Catholic saint and martyr}} {{Multiple issues| {{more citations needed|date=December 2016}} {{expand Italian|topic=bio|Basso di Nizza|date=July 2016}} }}

thumb|150px|Bust of Saint Bassus Saint '''Bassus of Nice''' (179 ca. – 250 AD) is a 3rd-century Roman Catholic saint and martyr,<ref>[http://catholicsaints.info/saint-bassus-of-nice/ Catholicsaints.info: Saint Bassus of Nice]</ref> traditionally the earliest named bishop of Nice.<ref>[http://www.cupramarittima.net/sanbasso/sb2.html Cupramarittima.net: P.D. Faustino Mostardi, ''San Basso da Nizza a Cupra'' (under the auspices of the Comitato Festeggiamenti San Basso Cupra Marittima, Este, 1962)]</ref> He was active on the Côte d'Azur, and was martyred for his faith under the Emperor Decius by being burned with red-hot blades and pierced from head to feet by two large shipbuilding nails, one through each foot.<ref>[http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/222/Saint-Bassus.html Saint Bassus].</ref>

thumb|left|150px|Martyrdom of Saint Bassus He is venerated as a saint. His feast day is 5 December. He is the patron saint of Cupra Marittima in Italy, where his body was taken after his death, and since 1922 or 1923 the second patron saint of Nice.<ref>[http://www.nicehistorique.org/vwr/?nav=Index&document=1322 Nice-Historique, p. 245]</ref>

==See also== *Decian persecution

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Category:Gallo-Roman saints Category:3rd-century Christian martyrs Category:Year of birth unknown Category:250s deaths Category:3rd-century bishops in Gaul Category:Bishops of Nice Category:3rd-century Christian saints Category:Decian persecution