His life comes under the times after the Edict
of Milan, when the emperor Constantine
the Great gave the Christian church the possibility to go out of the
darkness od catacombs.
However the edict of tolerance just meant the equality of
the Chritians to other religions of the Roman Empire. The individuals were
still subjected to animosity of the pagan society. The victim of such the
situation became also St. Reparatus.
He was a dedicated preacher of the Gospel in the city of
Nola near Neapol (Italia). As a deacon he devoted himself to charity. He died
as a martyr in 353.
The
faithful transferred his remains to Rome and entombed them on the cemetery of
St. Lawrence. These were laid there until 1769 when they were transferred to
Bratislava at the request of the Franciscan provincial minister Eugene Kósa
(1714-1783). Since then his remains have been kept in the artistic reliquary in
this Franciscan church.
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