The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity

from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world

Name

Karpos, Papylos and Agathonike, martyrs of Pergamon

Saint ID

S00051

Number in BH

BHG 293-295

Reported Death Not Before

170

Reported Death Not After

251

Gender

Male
Female

Type of Saint

Martyrs, Bishops , Lesser clergy

Related Evidence Records

ID	Title
E00014	Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (4.15), mentions as his source-texts martyrdom accounts of the martyrs of Smyrna, including Polykarpos/Polycarp (bishop and martyr, S00004), Metrodoros (Marcionite priest and martyr, S00047), and Pionios (presbyter and martyr, S00031), and of the martyrs of Pergamon, Karpos, Papylos and Agathonike (S00051); all in western Asia Minor. He also mentions a collection of martyrdom accounts (now lost) that he himself had compiled. Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325.
E00139	Eusebius of Caesarea, in various passages in his Ecclesiastical History, refers to a collection of early martyrdom accounts he compiled, probably in the 290s or 300s; with references to Pionios (martyr of Smyrna, S00031), Karpos, Papylos, and Agathonike (martyrs of Pergamon, S00051), the Martyrs of Lyon (S00316), and Apollonios (martyr of Rome, S00106). Written in Greek in Palestine, in 311/325.
E00352	The Greek version of the Martyrdom of *Karpos, Papylos and Agathonike (martyrs of Pergamon, S00051) recounts the interrogation and martyrdom of three Christians in Pergamon (western Asia Minor). The text mentions a miraculous vision and the collection of the saints’ relics in its last part, which seems to have been altered in a secondary phase. Probably written in Pergamon, in the 2nd/3rd c.
E00353	The Latin Martyrdom of Carpus, Pamfilus and Agathonice recounts the interrogation and martyrdom in Pergamon (western Asia Minor) of *Karpos, Papylos, and Agathonike (martyrs of Pergamon, S00051), and gives 13 April as the feast day of the saints. Text in Latin, probably translated from Greek of the 2nd/3rd c.
E01475	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.