Name
Ares, Promos and Elias, Egyptian martyrs of Ascalon
Saint ID
S00196
Reported Death Not Before
309
Reported Death Not After
309
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
| ID | Title | E00390 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Martyrs of Palestine (10.1), narrates the martyrdom of *Ares, Promos and Elias (Egyptian martyrs of Ascalon, S00196) on 14 December. Written in Greek at Caesarea (Palestine) in 311; a longer version of the text survives only in a later Syriac translation. | E00504 | The Piacenza Pilgrim records his visit to Ascalon (Palestine), where he saw a well where three Egyptian brothers and martyrs, whom he does not name, were buried (they are presumably *Ares, Promos, and Elijah, three Egyptian martyrs of Ascalon, S00196). Account of an anonymous pilgrim, written in Latin, probably in Placentia (northern Italy), c. 560. | E02383 | John Chrysostom, in his Encomion on Egyptian Martyrs, refers to Egyptian martyrs (probably those of Palestine), and to relics sent from Alexandria to various places. The saints protect these cities against enemies and demons. Written in Greek, probably at Constantinople in 397/407. | E02524 | The so-called Madaba Mosaic Map shows a number of labelled places of the cult of saints in the Holy Land (mainly monasteries). Found in Madaba (Roman province of Arabia). Probably mid-6th c. | E02797 | Greek inscription on a fragment of a bread stamp, probably referring to three saints whose name are lost, differently identified by modern editors. Found at Mount Zion in Jerusalem (Roman province of Palaestina I). Probably late antique. | E02845 | Wall painting with labelled depictions of three saints, possibly *Ares, Promos, and Elias (Egyptian martyrs of Ascalon, S00196). The identity of Ares was perhaps changed at a later date to that of *Sergios (soldier and martyr of Rusafa, S00023). Found in Caesarea Maritima (Roman province of Palaestina I), close to the site of the presumed 'chapel St. Paul'. Late 6th - early 7th c. | E02853 | A complex of warehouses, excavated to the north of the praetorium in Caesarea Maritima (Roman province of Palaestina I), was richly decorated with religious wall paintings showing Christ with the *Apostles (S00084), and probably the Three Egyptian martyrs: *Ares/Aretas, Promos, and Elias (S00196), and *Philemon (martyr of Antinoopolis, Egypt, S00386). Finds of small objects and the biblical background suggest the existence of a shrine of *Paul the Apostle (S00008) at the site in the 6th/7th c. | E03192 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 11 June *Ares and Promos (Egyptian martyrs of Ascalon, S00196). | E03461 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 14 December *Ares, Promos and Elias (Egyptian martyrs of Ascalon, S00196). | E03957 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 13 December *Eustratios, Auxentios, Eugenios, Orestes and Mardarios (martyrs in Sebaste under Diocletian, S01504) and *Promos (martyr of Ascalon, S00196). | E03958 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 14 December *Ares, Promos and Elias (Egyptian martyrs of Ascalon, S00196), and *Philemon and Apollonios (martyrs of Antinoopolis, S00386). | E05052 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 15 December. |
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