Name
Silvanos from Gaza and his companions, martyrs of the Phaeno copper mines
Saint ID
S00193
Reported Death Not Before
311
Reported Death Not After
311
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
ID | Title | E00318 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (8.13 and 9.6), gives a list of nineteen Christian leaders martyred alongside numerous other Christians in various regions of the East during the tetrarchic persecutions (304-313). Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325. | E00388 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Martyrs of Palestine (13.4-10), narrates the martyrdom of *Silvanos from Gaza and thirty-nine companions (martyrs of the Phaeno copper mines, S00193) on 19 September. Written in Greek at Caesarea (Palestine), in 311; a longer version of the text survives only in a later Syriac translation. | E03141 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 4 May at the Church of the Anastasis, *Silvanos (martyr of the Phaeno copper mines, S00193). | E03400 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 16 October *Silvanos (probably the martyr of the Phaeno copper mines, S00193). | E03423 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 8 November *Silvanos and his companions (probably the martyrs of Palestine, S00193). | E03728 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 3 May Mamas, an 8th c. katholikos of Iberia, *Zoe (possibly the martyr of Attaleia, S01600), *Silvanos (martyr of the Phaeno copper mines, S00193), *Nikephoros (martyr of Antioch, S01505), *Sabbas the Sanctified (founder of the Mar Saba Monastery, S00910). | E03729 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 4 May *Silvanos (martyr of the Phaeno copper mines, S00193), and his students, and *Pelagia of Tarsus (martyr, S01688), or *Pelagia (martyr in Antioch, S01093), *Menas (soldier and martyr of Abu Mena, S00073), and *Phokas (martyr of Sinope, S00052) or *Phokas (martyr of Antioch, S00413). | E03920 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 8 November *Silvanos and his companions (probably the martyrs of the Phaeno copper mines, S00193) and the *Archangels (S00191). |
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