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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Eight martyrs of Caesarea in Palestine

Saint ID

S00198

Reported Death Not Before

305

Reported Death Not After

305

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00375Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Martyrs of Palestine (3.1-4), narrates the martyrdom of *Eight martyrs of Caesarea (martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00198), on 24 March 305. Written in Greek at Caesarea, in 311; a longer version of the text survives only in a later Syriac translation.
E03064The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 23 March *Eight martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine (Agapios, two named Alexander, two named Dionysios, Timolaos, Paesios, Romelios, S00198).
E03065The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 24 March Alexandros and Agapios, two of the *Eight martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine (S00198), and the sack of Jerusalem.
E03638The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 8 February *Romelios (perhaps one of the *Eight martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00198), *Polycarp/Polykarpos (bishop and martyr of Smyrna, S00004), *Agathangelos (bishop and martyr of Damascus, S01252), and *Theognios (bishop of Betelia, near Gaza, S01506).
E03687The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 23 March *Eight martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine (Agapios, two named Alexander, two named Dionysios, Timolaos, Paesios, Romelios, S00198), *Pistis, Elpis and Agape (martyrs of Rome, S00554), and *Artemon (first bishop of Seleukeia of Pisidia and contemporary of Apostle Paul, S01604).
E03688The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 24 March *Alexandros and Agapios, two of the *Eight martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine (S00198), and the sack of Jerusalem, and *Thomas (abbot of Saint Euthymios Monastery, ob. 542, S01642).
E04961The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 19 September.