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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Glykerios, deacon and martyr of Nicomedia or Antioch

Saint ID

S00834

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01409The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 14 January the martyrdom of *Glykerios (deacon and martyr of Nicomedia, S00834). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E03657The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 27 February 'blessed' Gerontios (unidentified figure), *Glykerios (possibly the deacon and martyr of Nicomedia or Antioch, S00834), *Papias and Diodoros (martyrs of Attaleia, S00929).
E03830The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 12 August *Aaron (first High Priest, brother of Moses, S01427) and *Pantaleon (martyr in Nikomedia, S01427), *Glykerios (deacon and martyr of Nicomedia or Antioch, S00834), *Hippolytus (martyr of Rome, S00509), *Elianos (martyr of Amman, S00889).
E04608The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 13 January.
E04609The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 14 January.
E04610The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 15 January.