Name
Loukianos/Lucian of Antioch, theologian and martyr of Nicomedia and Helenopolis
Saint ID
S00151
Number in BH
BHG 996-998
Reported Death Not Before
310
Reported Death Not After
313
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Lesser clergy
| ID | Title | E00318 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (8.13 and 9.6), gives a list of nineteen Christian leaders martyred alongside numerous other Christians in various regions of the East during the tetrarchic persecutions (304-313). Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325. | E00396 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Life of Constantine (4.61), reports that the emperor Constantine, shortly before his death in 337, prayed at a shrine of martyrs at Helenopolis in Bithynia (north-west Asia Minor), perhaps the martyrium of *Loukianos (martyr of Nicomedia, S00151). Written in Greek in Palestine, 337/339. | E01020 | Greek epitaph for a certain Loukianos, a devoted follower of a martyr *Loukianos (probably a local martyr, or *Loukianos, of Antioch, martyr of Nicomedia, S00151). Found at the village of Kırşehir (near ancient Aquae Avernae, Cappadocia, central Asia Minor). Probably 5th/7th c. | E01046 | Greek inscription describing a city, presumably Diokaisareia, as the 'city of Saint *Loukios' (probably a local martyr, S00657). Found at Diokaisareia/Diocaesarea (Isauria, southern Asia Minor). Probably late 5th or 6th c. | E01406 | The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 7 January the martyrdom of *Polyeuktos (soldier and martyr of Melitene, S00325), *Qnōdīnōs (martyr of Heracleia in Thrace, S00951), and *Loukianos (martyr of Nicomedia, S00151). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411. | E02260 | John Chrysostom delivers a homily On *Loukianos (martyr of Nicomedia, S00151) during a service held on the saint’s feast day of 7 January. Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria), in the later 380s (probably in 387). | E02400 | Palladius of Helenopolis in his Historical Dialogue on the Life of *John Chrysostom (bishop of Constantinople, ob. 407, S00779), written in 408 or shortly after, recounts the death and burial of John at the shrine of the martyr *Basiliskos (S00388) at Komana/Comana in Pontus (northern Asia Minor). Chrysostom is forewarned of his death by Basiliskos, and is buried with the honours of a martyr. Written in Greek at Syene (Aswan, Upper Egypt). | E04193 | Philostorgius in his Ecclesiastical History recounts the martyrdom of *Loukianos of Antioch (theologian and martyr of Nicomedia, S00151), and reports that the city of Helenopolis was founded in honour of his burial site by Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great (if so, in 324/330). Written in Greek at Constantinople, 425/433. | E04602 | 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 7 January. | E06124 | The Greek Martyrdom of *Loukianos/Lucian of Antioch (theologian and martyr of Nicomedia and Helenopolis, S00151) recounts the childhood and scholarly career of Loukianos, as well as his arrest and journey to Nicomedia, his imprisonment and eventual death there, together with the miraculous recovery of his relics; the text also mentions a number of other martyrs of the tetrarchic persecution. Survives in a 10th c. metaphrastic redaction of an earlier text, possibly written in the 4th c. or later, possibly in Bithynia. | E07906 | Jerome, in his On illustrious men, states that *Lucianus/Loukianos of Antioch (theologian and martyr of Nicomedia and Helenopolis, S00151) and *Phileas (bishop of Thmuis, martyr of Alexandria, S00125) were both victims of the persecution of Maximinus in 311/313, and that Lucianus died in Nicomedia but was buried in Helenopolis (both in north-west Asia Minor, near Constantinople). Written in Latin in Bethlehem (Palestine), 392/393. | E07953 | The Paschal Chronicle records that the emperor Constantine refounded the city of Drepanum, north-west Asia Minor, and granted it immunity from taxation in honour of the martyr Loukianos/Lucian of Antioch (S00151), as well as renaming it after his mother Helena. Written in Greek at Constantinople, c. 630. | E08001 | The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor (AM 5818) states that in 325/6 Constantine refounded the city of Drepana in Bithynia (north-west Asaia Minor, close to Constantinople) in honour of *Loukianos/Lucian (martyr of Nicomedia, S00151) and renamed it after his mother Helena. Chronicle compiled in the Byzantine Empire in the early 9th c., using extracts from earlier Greek texts. |
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