Nunio and Alodio

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Nunio and Alodio (died 851) were a pair of child martyrs from Huesca. Coming from a mixed marriage, they eschewed the Islam of their father in favour of their mother's Christianity. They were exectued in accordance with sharia law as apostates. Their relics were preserved and revered at the Navarrese royal monastery of Leyre in the tenth and eleventh centuries, when a portal that still survives was fashioned bearing their image.

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• Catlos, Brian A. The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050–1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0 521 82234 3.