Nectarius

Nectarius is attested by Sozomen, (l.vii. c. 8;) but Tillemont observes, (Mem.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

a height he crushes, not only the professors who had been his colleagues, such as Nectarius of Guelma or Maximus of Madaura, but the most celebrated writers of his time -- Symmachus, for instance, and Ammianus Marcellinus.

Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

Nectarius: “Confess yourselves continually to God; I do not bring you forward on a stage to discover your faults to your fellow-servants; show your wounds to God, and ask of Him their cure; acknowledge your sins to Him who will not reproach you before men; it were vain to strive to hide them from Him who knows all things,” etc.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

A woman having accused herself aloud, to the penitentiary of Constantinople, of lying with the deacon, caused so much scandal and disturbance throughout the city that Nectarius permitted all the faithful to approach the holy table without confession, and to communicate in obedience to their consciences alone.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Nectarius, bishop of Constantinople, dying in 397, the emperor Arcadius, at the suggestion of Eutropius the eunuch, his chamberlain, resolved to procure the election of our saint to the patriarchate of that city.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

From Hom. 3, p. 16, it is clear that his predecessor Nectarius had not abolished canonical public penances, when he removed the public penitentiary; but that this office, as before the institution of such a charge, was exercised altogether by the bishop.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

All his revenues he laid out on the poor; for whose relief he sold the rich furniture which Nectarius had left; and once, in a great dearth, he caused some of the sacred vessels to be melted down for that purpose.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Nectarius as bishop of that city, and represents him as one of the chief movers in the appointment of St. Flavian as successor to

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

The acts are signed by Dositheus, his predecessor the ex-patriarch Nectarius, six metropolitans and bishops, the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

Nectarius, Bishop of Constantinople (381-97), consecrated her deaconess.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913