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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Aristōn, bishop and martyr in Alexandria

Saint ID

S01072

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01544The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 3 September the martyrdom of *Ariston (bishop and martyr in Alexandria, S01072). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E04940The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 3 September.