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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Kyriakos and Hesychios, martyrs of Nicomedia

Saint ID

S00971

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01444The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 1 March the martyrdom of *Kyriakos and Hesychios (martyrs of Nicomedia, S00971). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E05714John Malalas, in his Chronographia (12.45), mentions the martyrdom of *Pantoleon/Panteleemon (martyr of Nicomedia, S00596), *Hermolaos, Hermippos, and Hermokrates (martyrs of Nicomedia, S01780), and *Hesychios (martyr of Nicomedia, S00971, or Antioch S01034) under Maximian Galerius (r. 305-311). Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) or Constantinople, in the mid-6th c.