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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Sekoundos and Orontios, martyrs in Antioch

Saint ID

S01109

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01582The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 15 November the martyrdom of *Sekoundos and Orontios (martyrs in Antioch, S01109) and of *Shmona and Gurya (martyrs in Edessa, ob. 309/10, S00081). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411.
E05020The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 15 November.