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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Tabitha/Dorkas, pious woman raised from the dead by Peter in Acts

Saint ID

S00300

Reported Death Not Before

30

Reported Death Not After

100

Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Other New Testament saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00527The Piacenza Pilgrim records his visit to Ioppe (Jaffa, Palestine), where there was the grave of *Tabitha (the pious woman raised from the dead by Peter in Acts, S00300). Account of an anonymous pilgrim, written in Latin, probably in Placentia (northern Italy), c. 560.
E02657Coptic Apocalypse of *Elijah (Old Testament prophet, S00217), from Akhmim/Panopolis (Upper Egypt), pronouncing a false and deceitful Christ to be the enemy of the saints, who are essential to life on earth and who are in company with the true Christ; datable to the 4th century.