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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Agapios from Gaza, martyr of Caesarea of Palestine

Saint ID

S00188

Reported Death Not Before

306

Reported Death Not After

306

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00376Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Martyrs of Palestine (6.1-7), narrates the martyrdom of two Christians from Gaza, *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188), on 20/21 November, and *Thekla (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00189). Written in Greek at Caesarea, in 311; a longer version of the text survives only in a later Syriac translation.
E03046The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 6 March *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188), *Adrianos and Euboulos (martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00166).
E03437The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 22 November *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188).
E03439The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 24 November *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188).
E03635The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 5 February *Eusignios (soldier and martyr of Antioch under the emperor Julian, S01369), *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188), and *Agatha (virgin and martyr of Catania, S00794).
E03641The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 11 February *Longinos (centurion at the Crucifixion, S00926), Photios (unidentified), *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188) and his companions, and possibly *Blaisiois (bishop and martyr of Armenian Sebaste, S01360).
E03667The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 3 March*Eutropios and Kleonikos, and *Basiliskos (martyrs of Pontus, S01152 and S00388), *Adrianos and Natalia (martyr of Nicomedia and his pious wife, S01342), *Agapios (probably the martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188), *Gerasimos (anchorite, founder of a monastery in the Judean desert, S01507), and *Porphyrios (bishop of Gaza, ob. 420, S01368).
E03670The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 6 March *Agapios (probably the martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188), *Adrianos and Euboulos from Batanaea (martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00166), and *Konon (gardener and martyr of Magydos of Pamphilia, S00177).
E03721The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 26 April *Hesychios (martyr of Antioch, S01034), *Adrianos and Natalia (martyr of Nicomedia and his pious wife, S01342), *George (soldier and martyr, S00259), *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S01804), *Thyrsos (martyr of Bithynia, S00612) and *Alexandros and his companions (possibly martyrs in Egypt under Julian, S01190), *Mark (the Evangelist, S00293), and *Basileus (bishop and martyr of Amasea S01634).
E03926The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 14 November *Leontios (probably the martyr of Tripolis, Phoenicia, S00216), *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188), the deposition of the relics of *John the Baptist (S00020), *Elisha (Old Testament prophet, S00239), *Philip (the Apostle, S00109), and the Archangels *Michael (S00181) and *Gabriel (S00192).
E03934The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 22 November *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188), *Amphilochos (theologian and bishop of Iconium, ob. c. 400, S01805), *Clemens/Clement (bishop of Rome, martyr of the Crimea, S00111) and *Caecilia (virgin and martyr of Rome, S00146).
E03936The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 24 November *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188), bishop Eusebios (an unidentified figure), *Merkourios (soldier and martyr of Caesarea of Cappadocia, S01323), *Micah (the Old Testament prophet, S01236), and *Catherine (martyr of Alexandria, S00765).
E05025The 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 November.