Name
Dorotheos and Gorgonios, martyrs of Nicomedia
Saint ID
S00242
Number in BH
BHG 822-823
Reported Death Not Before
303
Reported Death Not After
304
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Slaves, Groups and pairs of saints
| ID | Title | E00316 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (8.5-6), reports that, during the persecution of Diocletian, several people were martyred in Nicomedia (north-west Asia Minor), including *Dorotheos and Gorgonios (S00242), and their companions, a certain *Petros (S01119), and the bishop *Anthimos (S00124). Their bodies are thrown into the sea lest Christians worship them as gods. Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325. | E00940 | Bilingual, Greek and Latin epitaph for a son of a high-ranking member of the imperial guard with a reference to burial ad martyres, probably *Dorotheos and Gorgonios (martyrs of Nicomedia, S00242). Found in Nicomedia (Bithynia, north-west Asia Minor). Probably 4th c. | E01450 | The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 11 March the martyrdom of *Gorgonios (martyr of Nicomedia with Dorotheos, S00242), *Agape (martyr of Antioch, S00979), and *Seven unnamed martyrs of Jerusalem (S00980). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411. | E04518 | Greek list of churches from Arsinoe (Fayum) including a church of *Dorotheos (saint with cult at Arsinoe, S02929) and a church of *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033); datable to the 6th/7th century. | E07952 | The Paschal Chronicle records the martyrdom of three martyrs of Nicomedia in 303: Dorotheos and Gorgonios (S00242), and Bishop Anthimos (S00124). The entry includes an otherwise unknown quotation from Loukianos/Lucian of Antioch on the martyrdom of Anthimos. Written in Greek at Constantinople, c. 630. |
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