Name
Dometios, monk of Syria, later 4th c.
Saint ID
S00414
Number in BH
BHG 560-561a
Reported Death Not Before
362
Reported Death Not After
363
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Ascetics/monks/nuns, Hermits/recluses
| ID | Title | E00076 | The Syriac Chronicle of Edessa records the building by Eulogios [bishop of Edessa 379-387] of a church dedicated to *Daniel (possibly the Old Testament prophet, S00727), which is later associated with *Dimet (possibly Dometios, monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414). Written in Edessa, in second half of 6th c. | E00367 | Gregory of Tours writes the Glory of the Martyrs (Liber in Gloria Martyrum), in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 580/594. Overview entry. | E00652 | Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Martyrs (99), tells of *Domitius/Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414), a specialist at curing sciatica (because he himself had suffered from it); how he cured and converted a Jew, thereby angering (but subsequently curing) Christian sufferers at his shrine. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 580/594. | E01689 | Greek inscription on a house at Barad/Brad in the Limestone Massif (north Syria), with a list of six or more saints: a saint *John (presumably either the Baptist, S00020, or the Apostle and Evangelist, S00042), *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414), *George (soldier and martyr, S00259), *Christophoros (martyr of Pamphylia, S00616), *Euphemia (probably the martyr of Chalcedon, S00017), *Philotheos (possibly the martyr of Antioch, S00878), possibly *Kyros and Ioannes/Cyrus and John (physician and soldier, martyrs of Egypt, S00406), a certain *Eusebios, possibly *Thomas the Apostle (S00199), and other unnamed martyrs. Probably 5th/6th c. | E01696 | Greek inscription on a boundary stone commemorating the grant of the privilege of asylum (prosphygion) to a shrine of *'Eias' (perhaps an otherwise unknown martyr, or the Old Testament prophet *Elijah/Elias, S00217), a certain *Andreas (probably the martyr of Antioch, S00883), and a certain *Dometios (probably the monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414). Found at Kfar 'Aruq near Antioch on the Orontes (north-west Syria). Dated 521/522. | E01789 | Greek inscription commemorating the construction of a martyr shrine (martyrion) of *Dometios (probably the monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414). Found at Mu'Allaḳ near Chalkis (north Syria). Probably late antique. | E01813 | Greek inscription with invocations of *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033), and probably *Dometios (probably the monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414). Found at Kfer Fenche, between Antioch on the Orontes and Beroia/Aleppo (north Syria). Probably 6th c. | E03264 | The Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem, composed in Greek in the seventh century and translated in the eighth, commemorates on 4 July, in the church of Anastasis, *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414). | E03349 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 14 August *Aeglon (unidentified anchorite and hegumen, S00877) and *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414). | E03420 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 5 November at the Church of the Holy Anastasis *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414) and *Paul (bishop of Constantinople and confessor, S01500). | E03730 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 5 May *Isaiah (Old Testament prophet, S00282), Strategios, probably an 8th c. abbot of Mar Saba, and *Dometios (probably the monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414). | E03791 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 5 July *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030), and *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414), *Peter (the Apostle, S00036), and *Martha (mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger, ob. late 6th c., S00864). | E03827 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 9 August *Aaron (first High Priest, brother of Moses, S01427), *Pantaleōn/Panteleēmōn (martyr of Nicomedia, S00596), *Matthias (the Apostle, S01784), *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414), and Emilianos, a 9th c. confessor under Leo the Armenian. | E03832 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, prescribes on 14 August synaxis for *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033) and commemorates *Aeglon (anchorite in Sketis, S01514), and *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414), and *Elianos (martyr of Amman, S00889). | E03917 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 5 November *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414) and *Paulos (bishop of Constantinople and confessor, ob. c. 350, S01500) and *Domninos (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00190) and *Matrona (abbess in Constantinople, 5th c., S01829). | E03918 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 6 November probably *Domninos (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00190) or *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414), *Drosis (virgin and martyr of Antioch, S01189), and *Paul (the First Anchorite, S00089). | E05716 | John Malalas, in his Chronographia (13.19-20), mentions the martyrdom of *Iouventinos and Maximinos (martyrs of Antioch, S00053) and that of *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414) under Julian the Apostate (361-363). Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) or Constantinople, in the mid-6th c. | E06756 | The Greek Life and Martyrdom of *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414). Skeleton entry | E06887 | List of subscriptions documenting foundations dedicated to saints in Constantinople, Syria, and Palestine, preserved in a petition to Pope Agapitus I from eastern monks. Written in Greek in Constantinople in 536. | E06966 | Jacob of Serugh's Syriac Homily (memrā) on *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414) extols the saint's ascetic virtues and his efficacy as healer, even after his death. Written in northern Mesopotamia in the late 5th/early 6th c. | E06986 | The Syriac Life of *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414) describes the life and healing miracles of Dometios, an ascetic active in Syria during the second half of the 4th century; probably written before 521. | E07544 | The Greek Life and Martyrdom of *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414) recounts the ascetic career and miracles of a Persian convert who was stoned to death, together with his two boy disciples, in his hermitage near Cyrrhus (Syria) under Julian the Apostate. It describes the miraculous rediscovery of the relics, and their deposition at the church of Parthen, a village near the shrine of *Kosmas and Damianos (brothers, physician martyrs of Syria, S00385). Written presumably in Cyrrhus, in the late 5th or the 6th c.. |
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