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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Menios, martyr of Laodicea

Saint ID

S01051

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.
E01519The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 23 June the martyrdom of *Menios (martyr of Laodikeia, western Asia Minor, S01051). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E04420Procopius of Caesarea, in his On Buildings, reports that the emperor Justinian (r. 527-565) built or restored shrines in Constantinople to the following martyrs: *Tryphon (martyr of Nicaea, S00439), *Menas and Menaios (martyrs venerated at Constantinople, E01698) and *Ia (female martyr in Persia under Shapur II, S00885). Written in Greek at Constantinople, in the 550s.
E04880The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 13 July.
E04890The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 23 July.