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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Polykarpos and companions, martyrs of Eumeneia, Phrygia

Saint ID

S01103

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01576The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 27 October the martyrdom of *Polykarpos and his companions (martyrs in Eumeneia of Phrygia, S01103). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E04999The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 27 October.