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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Petros Abshelama, martyr of Caesarea of Palestine

Saint ID

S00165

Reported Death Not Before

310

Reported Death Not After

310

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00304Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Martyrs of Palestine (10.2-3), narrates the martyrdoms of *Petros Abshelama from Eleutheropolis (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00165) and of the Marcionite bishop *Asklepios (martyr of Caesarea, S00178), on 10 January 310. Written in Greek at Caesarea; in 311, a longer version of the text survives only in a later Syriac translation.
E04606The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 11 January.
E04607The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 12 January.