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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Matthew, martyr

Saint ID

S01047

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
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.