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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Jerome, Church Father, ob. c. 420

Saint ID

S00267

Reported Death Not Before

419

Reported Death Not After

420

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Writers, Ascetics/monks/nuns, Lesser clergy
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00484The Piacenza Pilgrim records, in his account of the grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem (Palestine), the grave there of *Jerome (Church Father, ob. 420, S00267). Account of an anonymous pilgrim, written in Latin, probably in Placentia (northern Italy), c. 560.
E03364The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 28 August *Elisabeth (mother of John the Baptist, S01328), the deposition of the relics of *Paula (the elder, follower of Jerome, S01510), *Serapion (ascetic monk, S01511), *Jerome (Church Father, ob. 420, S00267) and *Marcella (associate of Jerome and Paula, S01512).
E03846The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 28 August *Elisabeth (mother of John the Baptist, S01328), the deposition of the relics of *Paula (the elder, follower of Jerome, S01510), *Serapion (ascetic monk, S01511), *Jerome (monk and writer, S00267) and *Marcella (associate of Jerome and Paula, S01512), *Maurice (Roman emperor, ob. 602, S00039), and an unidentified martyr.
E04972The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 30 September.
E05630Bede, in his Martyrology, records the feast on 30 September at Bethlehem (Palestine) of the laying to rest of *Jerome (church father, ob. c. 420, S00267). Written in Latin at Wearmouth-Jarrow (north-east Britain), 725/731.
E05859The Calendar of Willibrord, in its earliest version, records the feasts of various saints in September. Written in Latin at Echternach, Frisia (north-east Gaul), 703/710.
E05963In the Latin Whitby Life of *Gregory the Great, (bishop of Rome, ob. 604, S00838), the author reports that the saint extinguished the light (at the tomb?) of the pope (presumably *Siricius, bishop of Rome, ob. 399, S00527) who had banished *Jerome (Church Father, ob. S00267); and that he later caused the death of his successor (Pope Sabinianus, ob. 606) for denigrating his own memory. Written by a monk or nun of Whitby (north-east Britain), 685/714, perhaps 704/14.
E06084Adomnán, in his On the Holy Places, reports the recent visit of the Franco-Gallic bishop Arculf to the tomb of *Jerome (Church Father, ob. c. 420, S00267), in a church outside Bethlehem (Palestine). Written in Latin at Iona (north-west Britain), possibly 683/689.
E06659Aldhelm's verse On Virginity lists a range of saints as exemplary virgins, with some variations to the list found in the earlier prose version of the same treatise. Written in Latin in southern Britain, for the nuns at the monastery at Barking (south-east Britain), c. 675/710. Overview entry
E0831535 relic labels at Sens (northern Gaul), datable by their script to the 7th or 8th c., for relics of a great diversity of saints. Written in Latin, perhaps at Sens, or at an earlier stage in their transmission.