Evidence ID
E04570
Type of Evidence
Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)
Major author/Major anonymous work
Jerome of Stridon
Jerome of Stridon, Chronicle 357/358
|cclxxxiiii olymp-| |xx|
... Constantio Romam ingresso ossa Andreae apostoli et Lucae euangelistae a Constantinopolitanis miro fauore suscepta.
'284th Olympiad, 20th year of the reign of Constantius [AD 357/358]
After Constantius had entered Rome, the bones of the apostle Andrew and evangelist Luke were received by the people of Constantinople with marvellous goodwill.'
Text: Helm 1956, 240.
Translation: Pearse 2005.
RelicsBodily relic - unspecified
Protagonists in Cult and Narratives
Bodily relic - unspecified
Transfer, translation and deposition of relics
Transfer/presence of relics from distant countries
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesMonarchs and their family
Source
About 380 Jerome of Stridon, then sojourning in Constantinople, translated into Latin, and up-dated, the Chronikoi kanones, or Chronological Canons, one of the two parts of the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea. This work presents world history in chronological order in parallel columns, making it possible to compare what happened in the same years in the major empires and amongst the Jews. After AD 70 (the fall of the Jewish upraising) only one column remains, following the the history of the Romans. In the Chronicle, events are dated by the years of the Olympiads and, from the times of Julius Caesar, also by the regnal years of the Roman emperors.Jerome up-dated the Chronicle for the years 325-379, but it is only in the 350s that there is material relating to the cult of saints.
Discussion
The dating of the transfer of these relics to Constantinople is disputed. Following later chronicles, based on a now lost set of Latin consular fasti, Burgess (2003) claims that it was Constantine, not Constantius who brought the remain of Andrew and Luke to Constantinople and that it happened in 337, not in 357.Bibliography
Edition:Helm, R. Eusebius Werke, vol. 7: Die Chronik des Hieronymus, Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte 47 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1956).
Translation:
Pearse, R. and friends (Ipswich: 2005): http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_03_part2.htm.
Further reading:
Burgess, R. W., 'The Passio s. Artemii, Philostorgius, and the Dates of the Invention and Translations of the Relics of Sts Andrew and Luke', Analecta Bollandiana 121 (2003), 5-36.
Record Created By
Robert Wiśniewski
Date of Entry
10/01/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00288 | Andrew, the Apostle | Andreas | Certain | S00442 | Luke, the Evangelist | Lucas | Certain |
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