Name
Four Crowned Martyrs - the second group (Sempronianus, Nicostratus, Claudius, Castor), martyrs of Sirmium (Pannonia)
Saint ID
S00685
Number in BH
BHL 1836-1837
Reported Death Not Before
285
Reported Death Not After
312
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints, Merchants, artisans and other free people
| ID | Title | E00680 | The Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae, a guide to saints' graves around Rome, lists those on the via Labicana, south-east of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, probably in 625/649. | E01052 | The 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. | E01443 | The 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. | E02508 | The Latin Martyrdom of the *Four Crowned Martyrs (martyrs of Pannonia/Rome, S00685) narrates the sculpting work in porphyry quarries in Pannonia of Claudius, Castorius, Simpronianus, Nicostratus and Simplicius, their trial, tortures endured, death, and burial; the martyrdom in Rome of four cornicularii, and their burial by Sebastianus and bishop Miltiades on the via Labicana in a sand quarry with other saints; the names of these four martyrs who died on the same day as the Pannonian sculptors being unknown, Miltiades decides that they be venerated as Claudius, Nicostratus, Simpronianus and Castorius. Written presumably in Rome, at an uncertain date, perhaps in the 6th or 7th c., by the 9th c. at the latest. | E05012 | 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 7 November. | E05013 | 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 8 November. | E05014 | 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 9 November. | E05236 | Latin graffiti by visitors invoking a saint Clemens, probably one of the *Four Crowned Martyrs (S00685), crucial for the discussion of their early cult. Found in the cemetery inter duas lauros /ad Sanctos Marcellinum et Petrum, via Labicana, Rome. Probably 7th c. | E06591 | The Latin Gelasian Sacramentary (or Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae), probably compiled around 750 near Paris using earlier material from Rome, records prayers to saints on their feast days in November. | E06994 | The De Locis Sanctis, a guide to the graves of the martyrs around Rome, lists those on the via Labicana, south-east of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 642/683. | E07890 | The Itinerarium Malmesburiense, a guide to saints' graves around and within Rome, lists those outside the porta maior (present-day 'Porta Maggiore') on the via Labicana, south-east of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 642/683. | E08315 | 35 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. |
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