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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Dios, presbyter and martyr of Caesarea/Kaisareia of Cappadocia

Saint ID

S01043

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Lesser clergy
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01025Greek inscription on a boundary stone of a church dedicated to a martyr *Dios (probably *Dios, presbyter and martyr of Kaisareia/Caesarea in Cappadocia, S01043). Found near Basilica Therma (Cappadocia, central Asia Minor). Probably 527-565.
E01513The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 11 June the martyrdom of *Dīos (martyr of Kaisareia/Caesarea of Cappadocia, S01043). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E01514The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 12 June the martyrdom of *Mēnios (perhaps the martyr buried at Abu Mena, S00073, or the martyr of Laodikeia, S01051), *Papias (martyr, S01046), *Matthew (martyr, S01047), *Dīos (presbyter and martyr in Kaisareia of Cappadocia, S01043), and *Zēnobios (martyr in Isauria, S01044). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E03818Fragmentary document recording some form of agreement, perhaps mentioning a shrine of *Ioulianos (if so, probably the martyr of Cilicia, buried at Antioch or in Egypt, S00305), perhaps one of *Dios (possibly the martyr of Caesarea of Cappadocia, S01043), and possibly a monastery named after a saint whose name is lost. Written on papyrus. Found in Petra (Roman province of Palaestina III). P.Petra I 12, probably of after 544.
E04879The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 12 July.