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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Fabianus, bishop and martyr of Rome

Saint ID

S00147

Reported Death Not Before

250

Reported Death Not After

251

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00266Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (6.29), reports that, in 238, *Fabianus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00147) was elected to the episcopate in a miraculous way. Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325.
E00276Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (6.39.1-4), mentions the martyrdoms of *Fabianus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00147), *Alexandros (bishop and martyr of Jerusalem, S00149), and *Babylas (bishop and martyr of Antioch, S00061), during the Decian persecution (250/251). Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325.
E00343The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of *Fabianus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00147), recounts how he established in the Roman church subdeacons and notaries to collect the acts of martyrs; it then tells of Fabianus' own martyrdom, and his burial in the cemetery of Callixtus on the via Appia outside Rome, on 21 (or 20) January [AD 250].
E01052The Depositio Martirum, a list of burials of martyrs (primarily of Rome), gives both the day of the year and the place of their burial; from the so-called Chronography of 354, compiled in Latin in Rome, c. 354.
E04611The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 16 January.
E04616The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 20 January.
E04622The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 25 January.
E04623The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 26 January.
E04743Greek epitaph for *Fabianus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00147), naming him a bishop and martyr (with the second epithet probably added by a different hand). Found in the lower part of the cemetery of Callixtus, on the via Appia, outside Rome. Probably 250.
E05062The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 23 December.
E05070The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 31 December.
E05433Bede, in his Martyrology, records the feast on 20 January at Rome of *Fabianus (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00147). Written in Latin at Wearmouth-Jarrow (north-east Britain), 725/731.
E06540The Latin Gelasian Sacramentary (or Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae), probably compiled around 750 near Paris using earlier material from Rome records prayers to saints on their feast days in January.