Name
Niketas the Goth, martyr in the Danube region in 372, buried at Mopsuestia
Saint ID
S00711
Reported Death Not Before
372
Reported Death Not After
372
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Soldiers, Writers, Missionaries
| ID | Title | E01129 | The Greek Martyrdom of Niketas the Goth reports that Auxentios, bishop of Mopsuestia (Cilicia, south-east Asia Minor) acquired relics of *Tarachos, Probus, and Andronikos (martyrs of Anazarbos in Cilicia, S00710) in exchange for the promise of relics of *Niketas the Goth, (martyr in the Danube region in 372, buried at Mopsuestia, S00711). The passage gives an account of the opening of the tomb of Niketas, and of a failed attempt to harvest his relics. Probably written in Mopsuestia, in the late 5th or the 6th c. | E01175 | The Greek Martyrdom of *Niketas the Goth (martyr of the Danube region in 372, buried at Mopsuestia, S00711) recounts the translation of the relics of a martyr from beyond the Danube to Mopsuestia (south-east Anatolia) in the late 370s. Probably composed in Mopsuestia in the late 5th or 6th c. | E03866 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 15 September the death of *John Chrysostom (bishop of Constantinople, ob. 407, S00779) and *Niketas the Goth (martyr of the Danube region, buried at Mopsuestia, S00711), and probably *Martin (confessor and bishop of Rome, ob. 655/656, S00859). |
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