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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Theodoulos and Agathopous, martyrs of Thessalonike

Saint ID

S00995

Number in BH

BHG 1784

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01466The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 4 April the martyrdom of *Theodoulos and Agathopous (martyrs in Thessalonike, S00995). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E03699The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 4 April *Antipatros (bishop of Bostra, S01645), *Theodoulos (martyr of Thessalonike, S00995), and, as a later addition, Theodora of Thessalonike, 9th c., and probably *Agape (martyr of Thessalonike, S00206).
E05347The Greek Life of *David (dendrite and recluse in Thessalonike, S02012) recounts the story of a wonder-working ascetic who mediated between the city of Thessalonike (south Balkans/Greece) and the emperor Justinian. The text mentions a local monastery of *Theodoros (probably the martyr of Euchaita, S00480) and *Merkourios (martyr of Caesarea, S01323), and the site of martyrdom of *Theodoulos and Agathopous (martyrs of Thessalonike, S00995). Written at Thessalonike, in the early 8th c..
E06695The Greek Martyrdom of *Theodoulos and Agathopous (martyrs of Thessalonike, S00995). Skeleton entry