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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Ten Martyrs of Crete

Saint ID

S00823

Number in BH

BHG 1196

Reported Death Not Before

249

Reported Death Not After

251

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01387Fragmentary Greek inscription just possibly mentioning Euarestos, one of the *Ten Martyrs of Crete (S00823). Found at the village of Agioi Deka, close to ancient Gortyna (southern Crete). Probably 5th/6th c.
E03967The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c.prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 23 December the dedication of Justinian's church of *Sophia, (personified Holy Wisdom, S00705) in Constantinople, Stephen the Sabaite, 8th c. monk of Mar Saba Monastery and *Ten Martyrs of Crete (S00823).
E07109The Greek Martyrdom of the *Ten Martyrs of Crete (S00823) recounts their arrest, imprisonment, interrogation, torture, beheading by the sword, and burial at Alonion (Crete); around sixty years later their bodies are translated to Gortyn (also Crete), on the initiative of Paul, bishop of that city. Probably written in Gortyn, between the mid-4th and the 8th c.