Name
Zōtikos, martyr
Saint ID
S01064
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
| ID | Title | E01535 | The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 21 August the martyrdom of *Zōtikos (martyr, S01064) and his companions. Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411. | E03474 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 31 December *Zotikos (martyr and 'nourisher of orphans', S01064). | E03975 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 31 December *Boas (martyr of Hierapolis under Aurelian, S01669), *Zotikos (martyr and 'nourisher of orphans', S01064), *John (Apostle and Evangelist, S00042), *James (the Apostle, son of Zebedee, S00108), and *Markellos (abbot in Constantinople, 5th c. S01670). | E04926 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 21 August. | E07146 | The Greek Martyrdom of *Agathonikos and his Companions (martyr of Bithynia and Thrace, S01628) recounts the martyrdom of a leading Christian, arrested in the area of Nicomedia (north-west Asia Minor), and taken to Byzantium and Selymbria (Thrace, eastern Balkans) for execution. The text mentions martyrdoms and shrines in the surroundings of Nicomedia and Chalcedon (both close to Constantinople). Written in Constantinople, perhaps in the 5th or 6th centuries. |
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