The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity

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

Name

Iustus and Pastor, schoolboys and martyrs of Alcala, Spain

Saint ID

S00504

Reported Death Not Before

303

Reported Death Not After

312

Gender

Male

Type of Saint

Martyrs, Children

Related Evidence Records

ID	Title
E00801	Prudentius, in his poem (Crowns of the Martyrs IV) on the *Eighteen Martyrs of Zaragoza (north-eastern Hispania, S00485), lists the saintly patrons of various places in Hispania, Gaul and North Africa, who will be presented by their cities at the Last Judgement, and singles out Zaragoza for special praise, because of the number of its martyrs. Written in Latin in Calahorra (northern Hispania), c. 400.
E04380	Paulinus of Nola writes a poem of consolation for the death of an aristocratic child (Carmen 31), he reflects on the earlier death of his own son and describes the spiritual benefits which his burial near the tombs of unnamed saints in Complutum (Spain) will bring. Written in Latin in Spain or Nola, 393/408.
E04930	The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 25 August.
E05965	The will of Desiderius, bishop of Cahors (ob. c. 655), summarised in the Latin Life of Desiderius (E08220), leaves property to churches or monasteries in and around Cahors (south-west Gaul), dedicated to fourteen named saints or pairs of saints. Summary written in Cahors, c. 670/700.
E06845	Hymn in honour of *Iustus and Pastor (schoolboys and martyrs of Complutum, Spain S00504) composed in Latin in Spain possibly in the 7th century.
E07463	Ildefonsus, bishop of Toledo, in his On the Lives of Famous Men, writes that Bishop Asturius of Toledo in the late 4th c. found in Complutum the tombs of *Iustus and Pastor (schoolboys and martyrs of Complutum, S00504), and spent the rest of his days there. Written in Latin at Toledo (central Hispania), in 657/667
E08525	The Confession of *Leocadia (virgin and confessor of Toledo, S01367) mentions other martyrs of Hispania as Leocadia's peers. Written in Latin in Hispania, probably in the 7th c.