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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Polykarpos, martyr of Nicaea

Saint ID

S00958

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01416The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 27 January the martyrdom of *Polykarpos (martyr of Nicaea, S00958). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E02892The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 26 January the translation of the relics of *John Chrysostom (bishop of Constantinople, ob. 407, S00779) to Constantinople, 'bishop Theodoros' (probably the 8th c. bishop of Jeruslaem), the Emperor Valens, *Polycarp/Polykarpos (probably the martyr of Nicaea, S00958), and *Xenophontos (martyr of Constantinople, 5th c., S01815).
E04623The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 26 January.
E04630The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 31 January.