Name
Joshua, Old Testament leader of the Israelites
Saint ID
S00258
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Old Testament saints
| ID | Title | E00470 | Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Martyrs (17), tells of a spring in Beth Haram in the Holy Land where *Joshua (Old Testament leader of the Israelites, S00258) used to bathe, and about trees near Jericho producing wool with which Joshua's garments were made; Gregory has seen some of this wool. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 580/594. | E02604 | Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (39), tells how his father was twice cured from gout: in both cases Gregory, then a young boy, saw someone in a vision; the first time this person told him to put a small piece of wood with the name of *Joshua (Old Testament leader of the Israelites, S00258) under his father's pillow; the second time to burn the internal organs of a fish, as in the Book of Tobit. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. | E03371 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 2 September *Joshua (Old Testament leader of the Israelites, S00258). | E03853 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 2 September *Joshua (Old Testament leader of the Israelites, S00258), *Anthimos (bishop and martyr of Nicomedia, S00124), *Elisha (Old Testament prophet, S00239) and *Mamas (martyr of Kaisareia/Caesarea in Cappadocia, S00436). | E03854 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 3 September *Aaron (Old Testament prophet, S01427), *Eleazar (Old Testament priest, son of Aaron, S01489) and *Phineas (Old Testament priest, grandson of Aaron, S01490), the ascension of *Elijah/Elias (Old Testament prophet, S00217), *Theoktistos (hermit and follower of Euthymios the Great, S01622), and *Joshua (Old Testament leader of the Israelites, S00258), and *Anthimos (bishop and martyr of Nicomedia, S00124). | E06526 | Jerome, in his Letter 108, describes how Paula travelled through Palestine in 385-6 and visited the tombs of *Joshua (Old Testament leader of the Israelites, S00258), and *Eleazar (Old Testament priest, son of Aaron, S01489) on Mount Ephraim. Written in Latin in Bethlehem (Palestine), 404. |
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