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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Romanos from Rhosos, monk of Syria, ob. c. 400

Saint ID

S00360

Reported Death Not Before

364

Reported Death Not After

410

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns, Hermits/recluses
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01845Fragment from a Coptic Life of *Archellides (monk at the monastery of Romanos in Palestine, S00934), known for performing healing miracles during his lifetime; composed most likely during the 5th–7th c., preserved in a manuscript of the 9th/11th c.
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.