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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Markianos, monk of Syria, ob. c. 380s

Saint ID

S00345

Reported Death Not After

390

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns, Hermits/recluses
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E04185Theodoret of Cyrrhus in his Ecclesiastical History (4.29) mentions various holy men living under Valens (r. 364-378), most of them covered in greater detail in his Religious History. Written in Greek at Cyrrhus (northern Syria), 444/450.