The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity

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

Name

Thalelaios, martyr of Aigai in Cilicia

Saint ID

S01137

Number in BH

G 1707-1708

Reported Death Not Before

284

Reported Death Not After

284

Gender

Male

Type of Saint

Martyrs

Related Evidence Records

ID	Title
E02005	Greek inscription on a boundary stone of a sanctuary of *Thalelaios (probably the martyr of Aigai in Cilicia, S01137). Found at Kafr 'Aqab in Jabal Wastani, between Antioch on the Orontes and Beroia/Aleppo (north Syria). Dated 491-518.
E03434	The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 19 November the deposition of the relics of *Thalelaios (martyr of Aigai in Cilicia, S01137).
E03745	The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, celebrates on 20 May the Cross of Manglisi, and commemorates the martyrdom of *Thalelaios (martyr of Aigai in Cilicia, S01137) and the sack of Jerusalem.
E03931	The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 19 November Thalelaios (martyr of Aigai in Cilicia, S01137), Proklos (bishop of Constantinople, ob. 446, S01597), Shmona and Gurya (martyrs of Edessa, S00081), and Obadiah (Old Testament prophet, S01420).
E05099	Procopius of Caesarea, in his On Buildings, reports that the emperor Justinian (r. 527-565) renovated a great number of monasteries in the region of Jerusalem (and elsewhere in the East), many of them dedicated to saints. Written in Greek at Constantinople, in the 550s.
E06778	The Greek Life and Martyrdom of *Thalelaios (martyr of Aigai in Cilicia, S01137). Skeleton entry
E07025	The Greek Life of *Auxentios (ascetic and monastic founder in Bithynia, ob. c. 470, S01523) recounts the life and miracles of its hero as an ascetic on mount Oxia, near Chalcedon (north-west Asia Minor, near Constantinople), and founder of a nunnery at Gyrita near Chalcedon. It mentions shrines near Chalcedon. Written in Constantinople, probably in the mid 6th century.