The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 13 April the martyrdom 'in the city of Pergamos' of 'the bishop *Kyrillos, and Agathonike and Paulos' (probably Karpos, Papylos and Agathonike, martyrs of Pergamon, S00051). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
Evidence ID
E01475
Type of Evidence
Liturgical texts - Calendars and martyrologies
Major author/Major anonymous work
Syriac Martyrology of 411
Syriac Martyrology of 411
ܘܒܬܠܬܥܣܪܐ ܒܦܪܓܡܘܤ ܡܕܝܢܬܐ ܡܢ ܡܘ̈ܕܝܢܐ ܩ̈ܕܡܝܐ ܩܝܪܘܠܘܤ ܐܦܣܩܘܦܐ ܘܐܓܬܘܢܝܩܐ ܘܦܘܠܘܤ.
'And on the thirteenth (day) – in the city of Pergamos, from the ancient martyrs, the bishop Kyrillos, and Agathonike, and Paulos.'
Text: Nau 1912, 15.
Translation: Sergey Minov.
Festivals
Saint’s feast
Source
The Syriac Martyrology of the year 411 is the earliest liturgical calendar preserved in Syriac. It appears in the manuscript BL Add. 12150. The manuscript's colophon relates that it was produced in the city of Edessa in the year 411. Composed during the last decades of the fourth or the first decade of the fifth century, the Martyrology is divided into the two main sections - the main one, devoted to the Christian martyrs of the Roman empire, and the shorter one, devoted to the Christians executed in the Sasanian empire. The former section is derived from a lost Greek martyrology. For more information, see E00465Syriac text: Wright 1865-1866; Nau 1912, pp. 11-26; Brock and van Rompay 2014, pp. 389-392; English translation: Wright 1865-1866, pp. 423-432; French translation: Nau 1912, pp. 11-26; German translation: Lietzmann 1903, pp. 9-16; Latin translation: Mariani 1956. For general information, see Taylor 2012, pp. 80-81; Schäferdiek 2005.
Discussion
Kyrillos, Agathonike and Paulos of Pergamon, are probably the saints better-known as Karpos, Papylos and Agathonike, also of Pergamon, for whom the Martyrologium Hieronymianum records a feast on 12/13 April (E04773, E04774). Karpos, although initially nothing of the sort, is a bishop (like Kyrillos) in most of our texts, and, like Kyrillos, and in many of them he is accompanied by a Paulos (rather than Papylos).Bibliography
Main editions and translations:Brock, S.P., and van Rompay, L., Catalogue of the Syriac Manuscripts and Fragments in the Library of Deir al-Surian, Wadi al-Natrun (Egypt) (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 227; Leuven: Peeters, 2014).
Lietzmann, H., Die drei ältesten Martyrologien (Kleine Texte für Theologische Vorlesungen und Übungen 2; Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1903).
Mariani, B., Breviarium syriacum seu martyrologium syriacum saec. IV (Rerum ecclesiasticarum documenta, Series minor: Subsidia studiorum 3; Roma: Herder, 1956).
Nau, F., Martyrologes et ménologes orientaux, I–XIII. Un martyrologie et douze ménologes syriaques édités et traduits (Patrologia Orientalis 10.1 [46]; Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1912).
Wright, W., “An Ancient Syriac Martyrology,” Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record NS VIII, 15 (1865), 45-56; 16 (1866), 423-432.
Further reading:
Schäferdiek, K., “Bemerkungen zum Martyrologium Syriacum,” Analecta Bollandiana 123:1 (2005), 5-22.
Taylor, D.G.K., “Hagiographie et liturgie syriaque,” in: A. Binggeli (ed.), L’hagiographie syriaque (Études syriaques 9; Paris: Paul Geuthner, 2012), 77-112.
Record Created By
Sergey Minov
Date of Entry
25/05/2016
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00051 | Karpos, Papylos and Agathonike, martyrs of Pergamon | ܩܝܪܘܠܘܤ ܘܐܓܬܘܢܝܩܐ ܘܦܘܠܘܤ | Uncertain |
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