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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Seven martyrs of Jerusalem, recorded in the Syriac Martyrology of 411

Saint ID

S00980

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01450The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 11 March the martyrdom of *Gorgonios (martyr of Nicomedia with Dorotheos, S00242), *Agape (martyr of Antioch, S00979), and *Seven unnamed martyrs of Jerusalem (S00980). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E07035Coptic Martyrdom of the Seven martyrs (S00060), one of them being Apa *Paule, another Apa *Papnouti (perhaps the ascetic and martyr of Egypt, S01509), of unknown Egyptian provenance, presumably written during the 6th century. Skeleton entry