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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Four Crowned Martyrs (Secundus, Carpophorus, Victorinus, Severianus), martyrs of Rome

Saint ID

S00587

Reported Death Not Before

285

Reported Death Not After

312

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints, Soldiers
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01052The Depositio Martirum, a list of burials of martyrs (primarily of Rome), gives both the day of the year and the place of their burial; from the so-called Chronography of 354, compiled in Latin in Rome, c. 354.
E01443The short Life of *Honorius (bishop of Rome, ob. 638, S01459) in the Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome soon after his death, lists his construction of, and offerings to, the churches of many saints in Rome and its region.
E04911The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 7 August.
E04912The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 8 August.
E0831535 relic labels at Sens (northern Gaul), datable by their script to the 7th or 8th c., for relics of a great diversity of saints. Written in Latin, perhaps at Sens, or at an earlier stage in their transmission.