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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Ioannes/John the Soldier, confessor under the emperor Julian

Saint ID

S00925

Reported Death Not Before

363

Reported Death Not After

420

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
"Confessors", Soldiers, Miracle-workers in lifetime
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01832Inscribed red marble reliquary from the East church (the cathedral church) in Apamea on the Orontes (central Syria), recording relics of the following saints: *Ioudas, a saint whose name is lost (D[---]),*Kallinikos (possibly the martyr of Gangra, S00923), *Ioannes/John 'Stratiotes', and the *Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia (S00103). Probably 6th c.
E03822The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 4 August *Elisha (Old Testament prophet, S00239), the martyrdom of *John/Ioannes the Soldier (confessor under the emperor Julian, S00925), and *Sophia and her daughters (martyrs of Rome, S00554).
E03823The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 5 August *Moses (Old Testament prophet and lawgiver, S00241), possibly Tutael, also known as *Sharbel (martyr in Edessa, S01126), *Eusignios (soldier and martyr of Antioch, S01369), and *John/Ioannes the Soldier (confessor under the emperor Julian, S00925).