Name
Angels, unnamed or name lost
Saint ID
S00723
GenderMale
Male
Female
Type of Saint
Angels and archangels
| ID | Title | E01158 | Augustine of Hippo, in his treatise On the Care of the Dead, tries to answer the question of how living saints can appear in visions to human beings and how dead saints, being in heaven, can perform miracles on earth; he illustrates his considerations with examples taken from stories concerning *John of Lycopolis, (ascetic of Egypt, ob. c. 395, S00102), *Gervasius and Protasius (brothers and martyrs of Milan, S00313), and *Ambrose (bishop of Milan, ob. 397, S00490). Written in Latin in Hippo Regius (Numidia, central North Africa), 420/422. | E01329 | The Armenian History (45), attributed to Sebeos, tells of the construction in the 650s by the Armenian Katholikos Nersēs III of the church of the *Angels (Zuartnoc') (*S00723) at the site of the encounter of king Trdat and *Gregory the Illuminator (converter of Armenia, S00251). Written in Armenian in the second half of the 7th c. | E01777 | Fragmentary Greek inscription in red paint on a white marble plaque, probably referring to a saint. Found at Tyre (west Phoenicia). Probably late antique. | E02112 | The Canons of the Council of Laodicea, of the late 4th c., forbid the worship of angels. Written in Greek at Laodikeia/Laodicea of Phrygia (west central Asia Minor). | E02448 | Gregory of Tours writes the Glory of the Confessors, in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. Overview entry. | E02449 | Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (1), recounts a miracle of drink that never runs dry, after a man invokes the names of the *Angels (S00723) on an estate in the territory of Clermont (central Gaul); episode datable to before 573. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. | E02827 | Greek epitaph for a priest of 'the new foundation (ktisma) of the Appeared Angel', probably a church dedicated to an angel or Archangel. Found reportedly on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem (Roman province of Palaestina I). Probably 8th c. or later. | E04102 | Greek letter from the monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit (Middle Egypt), addressed to one of its monks, asking for prayers and the intercession of an Angel, as well as announcing a visit to the monastery for the feast of *Apollo (monk and monastic founder, 00774); datable to the late 6th/early 7th century. | E05116 | Coptic Life of Apa *Kyros (S01932), written by Apa Pambo, monk and presbyter of the church at Sketis (Wadi Natrun), written to establish it as a text read out in church, relating Apa Pambo’s excursion into the inner desert searching for this remotest of monks, illustrating his humility and witnessing the miraculous arrival of Christ, the anchorite’s death, as well as the burial undertaken by Christ himself; written perhaps during the 5th/6th c. | E05118 | Coptic Sermon on the proper way of monastic life (Asketikon) by Apa Ephraim, presumably the ascetic and founder of a monastery at Fargout, mentioning the saints as witnesses on the day of judgement; presumably written in the early 6th century. | E05119 | Coptic Letter by Apa Ephraim, presumably the ascetic and founder of a monastery at Fargout, instructing a younger monk on the importance of humility and the proper way of monastic life, listing the essential monastic rules and urging him to seek the approval of the Lord and his angels; presumably written in the early 6th century. | E05120 | Coptic Life of *John, the monk (ascetic from Rome, S01944), relating his escape as a young man from his rich home in Rome to join a monastery where he was torturing and destroying his body through severe asceticism, returning to Rome years later to live as a beggar at the gateway of his parents’ house. When he died they built him a shrine (martyrion) at that spot; written most likely during the 6th century. | E05283 | The Greek Life of *Theodoros (ascetic and abbot of Sykeon, ob. 613, S01619), by Eleusios-Georgios of Sykeon, mentions several shrines and festivals of saints at Sykeon and other places in Anatolia, the Holy Land, and Constantinople. Written at Sykeon (central Asia Minor), in the 640s. | E05474 | Gregory of Tours, in his Life of *Nicetius (bishop of Trier, ob. c. 567, S01305), recounts how Nicetius had a vision in which angels revealed to him the fate of the current and future kings of the Franks. From Gregory's Life of the Fathers (17.5), written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. | E05697 | Coptic ostracon from the area of Hermonthis (Upper Egypt) with a letter mentioning that some people entered the church of *George (presumably the soldier and martyr, S00259) causing damage, for which they will be banned from the celebration of the saint’s feast day; datable to the end of the 6th century. | E05749 | John Malalas, in his Chronographia (18.148), mentions that, in October 563, the emperor Justinian went on pilgrimage to the shrine of the *Angels (S00723; S00181) in Germia (Galatia, central Asia Minor). Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) or Constantinople, in the late 560s. | E05921 | The Latin Life of the Jura Fathers recounts how *Lupicinus and Romanus (brothers and founders of the Jura monasteries, mid 5th c., S00003) appeared in a vision to *Eugendus (ascetic in the Jura mountains, ob. 512/515, S02182) to show him his future; 450/460 in Izernore (eastern Gaul). Written at Condat in the Jura mountains (modern Saint-Claude in eastern Gaul), 512/525. | E07561 | Caesarius, bishop of Arles, in his Sermon 47, a sermon against drunkenness, inveighs against those who drink to angels and saints, thinking they are honouring them. Written in Latin at Arles (southern Gaul), 503/542. | E07732 | In c. 513/515, John Diakrinomenos in his Ecclesiastical History mentions that Philoxenus of Mabbug opposed the depiction of angels in human form, and opposed the veneration of images of Christ. Written in Greek in Constantinople. |
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