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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Elpidios and Hermogenes, martyrs of Melitene

Saint ID

S01014

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01487The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 3 May the martyrdom of *Elpidios and Hermogenes (martyrs of Melitene, S01014). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E05226The pilgrim Egeria, in her Itinerary, describes her visit to the tomb of *Helpidius (monk and martyr of Carrhae, S01969), in Carrhae/Karrhai (Mesopotamia), and how, with many monks from the surrounding region, she attended his feast on 23 April. Written in Latin during Egeria's journey to the East, probably in 381-384.
E05335John Moschus, in his Spiritual Meadow (154), mentions a monastery of *Elpidios (perhaps the martyr of Melitene, S01014; or the name of a monastic founder) near Jericho in Palestine. Written in Greek, probably in Rome, in the 620s or 630s.