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
ID | Title | E00297 | Eusebius 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. | E01201 | The 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). | E03432 | The 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). | E03929 | The 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). | E05022 | The 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. |
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