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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Yazdbozed, Persian martyr, ob. 6th c.

Saint ID

S00115

Reported Death Not Before

553

Reported Death Not After

553

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00562Greek epigram, by Menander Protector, recounting the story of Isbozetes, Persian convert martyred c. 551 (= *Yazdbozid, S00115). Written in the late 6th c., and preserved in an extract from Menander's lost History, and in the 10th c. Greek Anthology.
E03897The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 16 October *Aniketos and Photios (soldier and martyr of Nicomedia and his nephew, S01802), *Yazdbozed (Persian martyr, 6th c., S00115), *Hosea (Old Testament prophet, S01803), and *Gregory (bishop of Nyssa, ob. 395, S01357).