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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Timotheos, martyr of Gaza

Saint ID

S00122

Reported Death Not Before

305

Reported Death Not After

305

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00299Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Martyrs of Palestine (3.1), narrates the martyrdom of *Timotheos (martyr of Gaza, S00122) in 305. Written in Greek at Caesarea (Palestine) in 311; a longer version of the text survives only in a later Syriac translation.
E02708Fragmentary Greek inscription with a list of relics probably deposited by the empress Eudocia at the church of *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030) in Jerusalem, to the north of the north city gate. Found in Jerusalem (Roman province of Palaestina I). Possibly 460.
E03015The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 4 February a number of hermits of uncertain identity and *Timotheos 'the Martyr' (possibly the martyr of Gaza, S00122).
E03054The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 14 March *Timotheos (possibly the martyr of Gaza, S00122).
E03140The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 3 May *Timotheos (probably the martyr of Gaza, S00122).
E03678The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 14 March *Timotheos (possibly the martyr of Gaza, S00122), *Christina (martyr in Persia, S01385), and *Gerontios (possibly a martyr of Carthage, S01432).
E04924The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 19 August.
E08566The Greek Life of Porphyrios (bishop of Gaza, ob. 420, S01368), attributed to Mark the Deacon, is written, telling how pagan Gaza was converted to Christianity and how the great temple of Marnas was destroyed and replaced by a church. Written probably in Gaza, in the 2nd half of the 5th c., or first half of the 6th.
E08573In the Greek Life of *Porphyrios of Gaza (bishop of Gaza, ob. 420, S01368), attributed to Mark the Deacon, the saint leads a supplicatory procession out of the city of Gaza to the martyrium church of *Timotheos (martyr of Gaza, S00122), where there are also relics of *Maior (martyr of Gaza, S03093) and Theē (confessor of Gaza, S03099). Written probably in Gaza, in the second half of the 5th c. or first half of the 6th.