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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Forty ascetic women, with the deacon Ammon, martyrs of Thracian Heraclea and Beroea

Saint ID

S00398

Number in BH

BHG 2280

Reported Death Not Before

314

Reported Death Not After

324

Gender
Male
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints, Lesser clergy
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00630Mosaics of the 5th/6th c. in the Rotunda of Thessalonike (south Balkans/Greece) include the figures of two unidentified martyrs.
E01137Fragmentary 6th-century calendar, written in Gothic, most probably in Italy, naming saints whose feasts were celebrated by the Homoian ('Arian') Church of the Goths in late October and November.
E03852The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 1 September *Forty martyred women (martyrs of Thracian Heraclea and Beroea, S01621).
E05024The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 19 November.
E06581The Greek Martyrdom of *Ammon and the forty women (deacon and ascetics, martyrs of Thracian Heraclea and Beroea, S00398). Skeleton entry