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
| ID | Title | E01387 | Fragmentary 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. | E03967 | The 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). | E07109 | The 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. |
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