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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Anastasius I, bishop of Rome, ob. c. 401, buried on the via Portuensis

Saint ID

S00571

Reported Death Not Before

401

Reported Death Not After

402

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00688The Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae, a guide to saints' graves around Rome, lists those on the via Portuensis, south-west of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 625/649.
E01275The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, in its account of of Anastasius (bishop of Rome, ob. c. 401, S00571) states that he was buried in the cemetery ad Ursum Pileatum, on the via Portuensis outside Rome, on 27 April [AD 401/402].
E05058The 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 December.
E05059The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 20 December.
E07895The Itinerarium Malmesburiense, a guide to saints' graves around and within Rome, lists those outside the porta Portuensis on the via Portuensis, south-west of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 642/683.