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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Zakchaios and Alpheios, martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine

Saint ID

S00119

Reported Death Not Before

303

Reported Death Not After

303

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Lesser clergy
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00297Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Martyrs of Palestine (1.5), narrates the martyrdom of *Zakchaios from Gadara and Alpheios from Caesarea (martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00119), on 17 November 303. Written in Greek at Caesarea (Palestine) in 311; a longer version of the text survives only in a later Syriac translation.
E01201The Syriac Acts of the Second Council of Ephesus (449) relate that Chaereas, Roman governor of the province of Osrhoene, during his visit to the city of Edessa in April of 449, entered the martyr shrine dedicated to Zakhaios, perhaps *Zakhaios (martyr of Antioch, S00795) or *Zakhaios from Gadara (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00119).
E03432The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 17 November *Zakchaios and Alpheios (martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00119), and *Romanos (deacon of Caesarea, martyred at Antioch, S00120).
E03929The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 17 November *Zakchaios and Alpheios (martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00119), and *Romanos of Caesarea (deacon of Caesarea, martyred at Antioch, S00120), *Basil (bishop and martyr of Hama, S01135), *Gregory (the Miracle-Worker, bishop and missionary of Pontus, S00687), and *Basil (bishop of Caesarea, ob. 379, S00780).
E05022The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 17 November.