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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Theoktistos, martyr near Nikomedia

Saint ID

S00866

Reported Death Not Before

286

Reported Death Not After

305

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01165The Greek Martyrdom of Kyprianos and Ioustina of Antioch, recounts the martyrdom of the bishop of Antioch *Kyprianos with the virgin Ioustina (S01704), and of a certain *Theoktistos (S00866), all near Nicomedia (north-west Asia Minor), under Diocletian and Maximian. Their relics are transferred to Rome and buried there. Their feast is on 26 September. Written in the late 4th/early 5th c.
E03402The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 18 October in the church or chapel of *Laurence (deacon and martyr of Rome, S00037), *Thyrsos (martyr of Bithynia, S00612), *Theoktistos (martyr near Nikomedia, S00866) and *Hippolytus (martyr of Antioch, S00959).
E03857The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 6 September the dedication of the altar in the church of Siloam, and *Phokas (possibly the martyr of Antioch, S00413) and *Theoktistos (probably martyr in Alexandria under Decius, S01623).
E05968Syriac translation of the Greek Martyrdom of *Kyprianos and Ioustina (martyrs of Antioch, S01704), recounting the martyrdom of the bishop of Antioch Kyprianos with the virgin Ioustina, and of a certain *Theoktistos (S00866); produced during the 5th or 6th century.