Name
Phaustos/Faustus, presbyter and martyr of Alexandria
Saint ID
S00299
Reported Death Not Before
300
Reported Death Not After
312
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Lesser clergy
| ID | Title | E00278 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (7.11.26), mentions that *Phaustos/Faustus (presbyter and martyr of Alexandria, S00238) suffered martyrdom by beheading in Alexandria (Egypt), under the Tetrarchs. Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325. | E00318 | Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Ecclesiastical History (8.13 and 9.6), gives a list of nineteen Christian leaders martyred alongside numerous other Christians in various regions of the East during the tetrarchic persecutions (304-313). Written in Greek in Palestine, 311/325. | E00513 | The Piacenza Pilgrim, in his account of Alexandria (Lower Egypt), lists the graves there of *Athanasios (bishop of Alexandria, ob. 373, S00294), *Phaustos/Faustus (presbyter and martyr of Alexandria, S00299).*Epimachos (presumably Epimachos of Pelusium, martyr of Alexandria, S00222), 'Antoninus' (either *Antony 'the Great', monk of Egypt, ob. 356, S00098, or *Antoninus, martyr of Alexandria, S00327) and *Mark (the Evangelist, S00293). Account of an anonymous pilgrim, written in Latin, probably in Placentia (northern Italy), c. 560. | E01178 | Fragment of a Coptic inscription of unknown origin mentioning a martyr Apa *Ammonios, possibly the companion martyr of *Phaustos (presbyter and martyr of Alexandria, S00299); presumably 6th/7th century. | E01548 | The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 8 September the martyrdom of the presbyter *Phaustos, Ammonios and their twenty companions (probably Phaustos, presbyter and martyr of Alexandria, and companions, S00299). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411. | E04945 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 8 September. | E05306 | John Moschus, in his Spiritual Meadow (106), mentions the churches in Alexandria (Lower Egypt) of *Sophia (presumably Holy Wisdom, S00705) and of *Phaustos (presbyter and martyr of Alexandria , S00299). Written in Greek, probably in Rome, in the 620s or 630s. | E05974 | Coptic ostracon from Deir el-Bahari (Upper Egypt) with a receipt for the full payment of a salary, mentioning the steward of an institution dedicated to Apa *Phaustos (presumably the presbyter and martyr of Alexandria, S00299) acting as a witness and the scribe of the document; datable around the year 600. |
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