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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Orion, bishop and martyr in Alexandria

Saint ID

S01061

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01532The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 16 August the martyrdom of the bishop *Ōriōn (bishop and martyr in Alexandria, S01061). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E04079Coptic funerary inscription from Antinoopolis (Middle Egypt), invoking Abba *Horion (S01061) to have mercy on the soul of a deceased woman; datable to the 6th/7th century.
E04080Coptic funerary inscription from Antinoopolis (Middle Egypt), invoking Apa *Horion (S01061) to have mercy on the soul of a deceased woman; datable to the 6th/7th century.
E04921The 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 August.
E04922The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 17 August.
E04924The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 19 August.