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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


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
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00318Eusebius 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.
E00388Eusebius 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.
E03141The 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).
E03400The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 16 October *Silvanos (probably the martyr of the Phaeno copper mines, S00193).
E03423The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 8 November *Silvanos and his companions (probably the martyrs of Palestine, S00193).
E03728The 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).
E03729The 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).
E03920The 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).