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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Asklepios, Marcionite bishop and martyr of Palestine

Saint ID

S00178

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.