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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Thalelaios, monk of Syria, ob. mid 5th c.

Saint ID

S00375

Reported Death Not Before

440

Reported Death Not After

500

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns, Hermits/recluses
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02005Greek inscription on a boundary stone of a sanctuary of *Thalelaios (probably the martyr of Aigai in Cilicia, S01137). Found at Kafr 'Aqab in Jabal Wastani, between Antioch on the Orontes and Beroia/Aleppo (north Syria). Dated 491-518.
E03161The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 24 May *Thalelaios (monk in Syria, S00375) and Mark the 'herdsman'.
E03404The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 20 October *Thalelaios (monk of Syria, S00375) and the deposition of the relics of *John the Baptist (S00020) and *Mark (the Evangelist, S00293).
E05099Procopius of Caesarea, in his On Buildings, reports that the emperor Justinian (r. 527-565) renovated a great number of monasteries in the region of Jerusalem (and elsewhere in the East), many of them dedicated to saints. Written in Greek at Constantinople, in the 550s.