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. 565/570. | 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; these saints protect the 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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