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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Nerses the Great, katholikos of Greater Armenia, ob. 373

Saint ID

S00254

Reported Death Not Before

373

Reported Death Not After

373

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops , Miracle-workers in lifetime
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00147The Epic Histories (5.25-2), traditionally attributed to P'awstos, recount the miraculous disappearance in a river, of the Syrian anchorite *Šałitay (Syrian anchorite and disciple of Daniel, S00067), who wished to avoid the veneration of his relics. Written in Armenian in the second half of the 5th c.
E01334The Epic Histories (4.7), traditionally attributed to P'awstos, recounts the miraculous ordination of the Armenian Katholikos *Nersēs (katholikos of Greater Armenia, ob. 373, S00254) and of *Basil (bishop of Caesarea, ob. 379, S00780), followed by the vision of Basil before his defence of Orthodoxy against the Arians, at the disputation summoned by the emperor Valens. Written in Armenian in the second half of the 5th c.