Servandus and Cermanus
{{Short description|Spanish martyrs (d. 305 AD)}}
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Servandus and Germanus ({{langx|es|San Servando y San Germán}}) (d. 305 AD) were Spanish martyrs who are venerated as Christian saints.
They were killed near Cádiz.[https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-servandus-and-germanus/ Monks of Ramsgate. "Servandus and Germanus". Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 19 October 2016] Tradition states that they were from Mérida. They joined the Roman Army and during the persecution of Diocletian,[http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/74820 "Saints Servando and Germano", Santie e beati, September 18, 2000] were imprisoned after being identified as Christians. They made new converts in prison.
The vicarius of Mérida, Viator, tortured them and planned to take them to Mauritania Tingitana and had them walk barefoot and in chains from Mérida to Cádiz. Viator failed to find a boat that could take them and they were decapitated on a hill of the fundus Ursianus in the conventus Gaditanus.[https://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/sergercad Odden, Per Einar. "De hellige Servandus og Germanus av Cádiz (d. ~304)", Den katolske kirke] The body of Germanus was buried at Mérida and that of Servandus at Cádiz, and then later translated to Seville.[http://www.cadizpasion.net/VidadelosPatronos.htm :Cádizpasión:...Resena Histórica De Los Santos Patronos De Cádiz, San Servando Y San Germán] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070529050918/http://www.cadizpasion.net/VidadelosPatronos.htm |date=2007-05-29 }} The hill of fundus Ursianus has been identified with Cerro de los Mártires (San Fernando) and with Cerro de Torrejosa near Facinas (Tarifa).Pascual-Barea, Joaquín. “[https://rodin.uca.es/xmlui/handle/10498/20873 Ubicación en el Valle de Ojén (Cádiz) del fundus Ursianus donde fueron ejecutados los mártires Servando y Germán]”, Habis, 49 (2018), 233-249.
Veneration
Servandus and Germanus are mentioned in the martyrologies of Bede, Usuard, Ado, as well as the Mozarabic breviary, and in the breviaries of Toledo, Seville, Salamanca, among others.[http://www.cadizcofrade.net/patronos/marceloynonia.htm Santos Patronos de Cádiz] They are venerated as patron saints of Cádiz (officially since 1619). On the Sunday closest to October 23 they celebrate in the town of San Fernando the festival of Saints Servandus and Germanus, carrying statues of the saints in a procession.[http://www.aytosanfernando.org/la_ciudad/otras_fiestas.htm Ayuntamiento de San Fernando] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071002225100/http://www.aytosanfernando.org/la_ciudad/otras_fiestas.htm |date=2007-10-02 }}
The sculptor Luisa Roldán (1650–1704), called La Roldana, made sculptures of these two saints at Cádiz.[http://www.cadizcofrade.net/imagineros/roldana.htm Cádiz Cofrade - Imaginería]
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Category:4th-century Christian martyrs
Category:Groups of Christian martyrs of the Roman era