Name
Gayanē, Armenian martyr and companion of Hripsimē
Saint ID
S00260
Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns, Martyrs
| ID | Title | E00497 | Agathangelos' History of Armenia, also known as the History and Life of St Gregory, tells the story, set in the early 4th c., of the martyrdom and death at Artašat on the orders of King Trdat of the virgins *Hripsimē (Armenian virgin and martyr of Roman origin, S00645), *Gayanē (Armenian martyr and companion of Hripsimē, S00260) and their companions. Written in Armenian in the middle of the 5th c. | E00500 | Agathangelos' History of Armenia, also known as the History and Life of St Gregory, tells the story, set in the early 4th c., of *Gregory the Illuminator (converter of Armenia, S00251) retrieving the bodies of the virgins *Hripsimē (Armenian virgin and martyr of Roman origin, S00071) and *Gayanē (Armenian martyr and companion of Hripsimē, S00260). Written in Armenian in the middle of the 5th c. | E00888 | The History of the Albanians (1.21) recounts the miraculous discovery of the relics of *Grigoris (katholikos and martyr in Caucasian Albania, ob. early 4th c., S00062), grandson of Gregory the Illuminator, by the Albanian King Vačagan III, involving an elaborate procession with the relics of saints *Zechariah (father of John the Baptist, S00597), *Pantaleon (martyr of Nicomedia, S00596), *Gregory the Illuminator (converter of Armenia, S00251) and *Hripsimē (Armenian virgin and martyr of Roman origin, S00071) and *Gayanē (Armenian martyr and companion of Hripsimē, S00026), an intervention by Grigoris himself, and a vision of the king. Written in Armenian, probably in Caucasian Albania, possibly in the 6th c. or 7th c. | E01134 | Agathangelos’ History of Armenia, also known as the History and Life of St Gregory, recounts the vision of *Gregory the Illuminator (converter of Armenia, S00251), in which he sees pillars of the church set on the places of martyrdom of the virgin martyrs of Armenia, *Gayanē (Armenian martyr and companion of Hripsimē, S00260), *Hripsimē (Armenian virgin and martyr of Roman origin, S00071) and their companions. Written in Armenian in the middle of the 5th c. | E03469 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 22 December *Hripsimē (Armenian virgin and martyr of Roman origin, S00071) and *Gayanē (Armenian martyr and companion of Hripsimē, S00260). | E03966 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 22 December *Hripsime (virgin and martyr of Armenia,S00071), *Gayane (Armenian martyr and companion of Hripsime, S00260), *Anastasia (martyr of Sirmium and Rome, S00602). and Bakchos the Younger, monk of St Saba monastery, killed by the Arabs in 787. |
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