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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Symeon, ascetic near Cyrrhus, ob. c. 390

Saint ID

S00350

Reported Death Not After

390

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns, Hermits/recluses
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E04020Sozomen, in his Ecclesiastical History (3.14-16), refers to several monastic holy men who were active in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and the West in the mid-fourth century. Written in Greek at Constantinople, 439/450.
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.