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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Leontios, martyr of Nicomedia

Saint ID

S00953

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01411The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 20 January the martyrdom of *Leontios (martyr of Nicomedia, S00953) and *Kyriakos, Cendeus, Vitus, Florus, and Felix (martyrs of Nicomedia, S00954). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E04616The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 20 January.
E04617The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 21 January.