Name
Three Children, martyrs of Antioch with Babylas
Saint ID
S00319
Reported Death Not Before
250
Reported Death Not After
251
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Children
| ID | Title | E00530 | The Piacenza Pilgrim records his visit to Antioch (Syria), mentioning the tombs there of *Babylas (bishop and martyr of Antioch, S00061), the *Three Children (his companions, S00319), *Iustina/Ioustina (virgin and martyr of Antioch, S01704), *Iulianus/Ioulianos (martyr of Cilicia, buried at Antioch or in Egypt S00305), and the *Maccabean Martyrs (pre-Christian Jewish martyrs of Antioch, S00303); over the latter hang the instruments of their martyrdom or an account thereof. Account of an anonymous pilgrim, written in Latin, probably in Placentia (northern Italy), c. 560. | E01413 | The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 24 January the martyrs *Babylas (bishop and martyr of Antioch, S00061) and the *Three Children (his companions, S00319), in Nicomedia (north-west Asia Minor). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411. | E02421 | Latin translation of the Greek Martyrdom of Babylas and his Companions (*Bablyas, bishop and martyr of Antioch, S00061, and the *Three Children, S00319), produced by the 7th century at the latest. | E02684 | The Greek Martyrdom of *Babylas (bishop and martyr of Antioch) recounts the martyrdom by decapitation of the saint and of his comapnions, the *Three Children (S00319), in Antioch (Syria). Probably written in Antioch, in the 5th c. or later. | E02906 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 15 January *Babylas (bishop and martyr in Antioch, S00061) and the *Three Children (martyrs of Antioch with Babylas, S00319), and Archil, martyred king of Iberia, ob. 744. | E02946 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 15 January *Babylas (bishop and martyr of Antioch, S00061) and his 'three sons' (the *'Three Children', martyrs of Antioch with Babylas, S00319). | E04621 | 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 24 January. | E06566 | Aldhelm, in his prose On Virginity, names *Babylas (bishop and martyr of Antioch, S00061), as an exemplary virgin. Written in Latin in southern Britain, for the nuns at the monastery at Barking (south-east Britain), c. 675/686. | E07727 | Gregory of Tours, in his Histories (1.30), mentions a number of martyrdoms which took place during the reign of the emperor Decius (249-251), naming *Babylas (bishop and martyr of Antioch, S00061) and his companions the *Three Children (S00319), *Xystus/Sixtus II (bishop and martyr of Rome, S00201), *Laurence/Laurentius (deacon and martyr of Rome, S00037), and *Hippolytus (martyr of Rome, S00509). Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 575/594. |
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