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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Kyrillos/Quirillus, Kyndaias/Quindeus, and companions, martyrs of Axiopolis

Saint ID

S01020

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00723Victricius of Rouen names saints who perform healing miracles at their burial place and elsewhere: *John (the Apostle and Evangelist, S00042), *Proculus and *Agricola (martyrs of Bologna, S00448 and S00310), *Antonius/Antoninus (martyr of Piacenza, S00328), *Saturninus and Troianus (martyrs of Macedonia, S00446), *Nazarius (martyr of Milan, S00281) and several other saints, male and female, of uncertain identity (S00449). Written in Latin in Rouen (northern Gaul), 395/397.
E01449The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 10 March the martyrdom of *Kyrillos and Cindeus (probably Kyrillos/Quirillus and Kyndaias/Quindeus, martyrs of Axioplois S01020). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E04562Procopius of Caesarea, in his On Buildings, reports that the emperor Justinian (r. 527-565) either built, or renovated numerous fortresses in the diocese of Thrace (eastern Balkans), five of them named after saints. Written in Greek at Constantinople, in the 550s.
E04853The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 16 June.
E04876The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 9 July.
E04900The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 1 August.
E06913The Greek homiletic Martyrdom of *Kyrillos (bishop and martyr of Gortyna in Crete, S00396), based on a possibly 4th c. account, recounts the martyrdom of an elderly bishop who was executed and buried on a high mountain. Probably written in Crete.