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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Domninos, martyr of Caesarea of Palestine

Saint ID

S00190

Reported Death Not Before

308

Reported Death Not After

308

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00377Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Martyrs of Palestine (7.3-4 and 8.2-4), narrates the martyrdom of *Domninos (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00190) and *Auxentios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00298) on 5 November, and the suffering of three unnamed young men. Written in Greek at Caesarea, in 311; a longer version of the text survives only in a later Syriac translation.
E01859Fragmentary Greek inscription with an invocation, just possibly of *Domninos, and *Theophilos (martyrs of Palestine, S00190, S00935). Found at Ḥarāke near Apamea on the Orontes and Androna (central Syria). Probably late 5th or 6th c.
E02708Fragmentary Greek inscription with a list of relics probably deposited by the empress Eudocia at the church of *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030) in Jerusalem, to the north of the north city gate. Found in Jerusalem (Roman province of Palaestina I). Possibly 460.
E03421The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 6 November *Domninos (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00190).
E03917The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 5 November *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414) and *Paulos (bishop of Constantinople and confessor, ob. c. 350, S01500) and *Domninos (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00190) and *Matrona (abbess in Constantinople, 5th c., S01829).
E03918The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 6 November probably *Domninos (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00190) or *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414), *Drosis (virgin and martyr of Antioch, S01189), and *Paul (the First Anchorite, S00089).
E05008The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 4 November.
E05009The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 5 November.