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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Sabas and Alexandros, martyrs

Saint ID

S01067

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01539The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 27 August the martyrdom of the presbyter *Sabās and Alexandros (martyrs, S01067). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E04931The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 26 August.