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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Markellos, martyr of Ankyra

Saint ID

S01073

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01545The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 4 September the martyrdom of *Markellos (martyr of Ankyra, S01073) and his eight companions. Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E04941The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 4 September.