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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Ennatha and Oualentina, martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine

Saint ID

S00162

Reported Death Not Before

309

Reported Death Not After

309

Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00302Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Martyrs of Palestine (8.5-8), narrates the martyrdom of *Ennatha from Gaza and *Oualentina/Valentina from Caesarea (martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00162) in 309. Written in Greek at Caesarea, in 311; a longer version of the text survives only in a later Syriac translation.
E03276The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 16 July *Ennatha and Oualentina/Valentina (martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00162), and *Paulos (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00164).
E03802The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 16 July *Ennatha and Oualentina (martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00162), *Paulos (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00164), *Kyrikos/Cyriacus (child martyr of Tarsus, son of *Ioulitta/Julitta, S00007), *Ioulitta/Julitta, martyr of Tarsus, mother of *Kyrikos/Cyricus, S00677), *Antiochos (physician and martyr of Sebasteia, S01997).
E04883The 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 July.