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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Akepsimas, monk of Syria, ob. early 5th c.

Saint ID

S00364

Reported Death Not Before

400

Reported Death Not After

423

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.