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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Loukianos, martyr of Heliopolis-Baalbek

Saint ID

S00831

Reported Death Not Before

361

Reported Death Not After

363

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01405The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 6 January the martyrdom of *Loukianos (martyr of Heliopolis-Baalbek, S00831). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E01717The Martyrdom of Loukianos, surviving only in Georgian, recounts the martyrdom of *Loukianos (martyr of Heliopolis-Baalbek, under the emperor Julian, S00831) and the distribution of his relics, in part miraculously by a raven. Translated in the 7th/8th c. from a Greek or Syriac original.
E03840The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 22 August *Isaac (Old Testament patriarch, S00275), and *Jacob (Old Testament Patriarch, S00280), *Loukianos (martyr of Heliopolis-Baalbek, S00831) and *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033) and *Agathonikos (martyr of Bithynia and Thrace, S01628).