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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Irenarchos, Akakios and two children, martyrs of Sebasteia

Saint ID

S00623

Number in BH

BHG 2204

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00989A white marble reliquary with carvings and Greek inscriptions referring to the relics of an unidentifiable saint *K(- - -), and apparently also to four unnamed martyrs. Found at Sebasteia (Roman province of Armenia I, eastern Asia Minor). Probably 6th/7th c.
E03938The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 26 November *Peter (bishop and martyr of Alexandria, S00247), *John II (bishop of Jerusalem, ob. 417, S00172) or *John III (bishop of Jerusalem, ob. 524, S00194), *Irenarchos (martyr of Sebasteia, S00623), *Elianos (probably the martyr of Amman, S00889), *Clemens/Clement (bishop of Rome, martyr of the Crimea, S00111).
E03940The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 28 November *Atticus (unidentified martyr, S01826), *Jacob the Dismembered (martyr of Persia under Bahram V, ob. 421, S01660), *Pamphilos and companions (martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00140), *Irenarchos (probably the martyr of Sebasteia, S00623), *Elianos (martyr of Amman, S00889), and *Andrew (the Apostle, S00288).
E03941The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 29 November the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (brothers who fell asleep during the persecution of Decius, S00287), *Irenarchos (probably martyr of Sebasteia, S00623), *Elianos (martyr of Amman, S00889), *Kosmas and Damianos (brothers, physician martyrs of Syria, S00385), and the *Archangels (S00191), and *Theodoros (possibly the Chalcedonian Armenian bishop of Theodosiopolis, early 7th c., S01838).
E06649The Greek Martyrdom of *Irenarchos, Akakios and two children (martyrs of Sebasteia, S00623). Skeleton entry