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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Bassos, martyr recorded in the Syriac Martyrology of 411

Saint ID

S00989

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01455The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 19 March the martyrdom of *Bassos (martyr of unknown location, S00989) and *Serapion (martyr of unknown location, S00990). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E01950Fragmentary and scarcely legible Greek inscription, once implausibly presented as referring to a martyr shrine (martyrion) of *Phokas (martyr of Antioch, S00413), *Bassos (martyr of Syria, S01127), and *Artemios (martyr of Antioch under Julian, S01128). Found at Umm el-Mais near Ḥimṣ/Emesa (northwest Phoenicia). Probably late antique.