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
| ID | Title | E02005 | Greek 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. | E03161 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 24 May *Thalelaios (monk in Syria, S00375) and Mark the 'herdsman'. | E03404 | The 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). | E05099 | Procopius 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. |
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