Name
Drosis, virgin and martyr of Antioch
Saint ID
S01189
Number in BH
G 566 BHO 265
Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Virgins, Monarchs and their family, Children
| ID | Title | E02212 | Fragmentary list in Greek of saints' days, evidently for the month of December, presumably from the area of Hermopolis (Middle Egypt), with entries for *Severos (bishop of Antioch, ob. 538, S00262), *Kopres (martyr of Egypt under Julian, S01190), *Peter (bishop and martyr of Alexandria, S00247), *Gregory the Illuminator (converter of Armenia, S00251), *Horouonchios (saint with cult at Aphrodito and Hermopolis, S01187), *Sarapion, (Egyptian martyr from Panephosi, §S02038), and *Drosis (virgin and martyr of Antioch, S01189), as well as various unnamed martyrs (S00060); datable to the 7th/8th century. | E02343 | John Chrysostom delivers a homily On *Drosis (virgin and martyr of Antioch, S01189) during a service held at the Christian cemetery of Antioch (Syria), where her remains are kept. Written in Greek at Antioch, 386/397. | E03060 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 19 March possibly *Drosis (virgin and martyr of Antioch, S01189) and *Ia (female martyr in Persia, S00885). | E03684 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the tenth century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 20 March *John II (bishop of Jerusalem, S01372) and possibly *Drosis (virgin and martyr of Antioch, S01189) and *Ia (female martyr in Persia, S00885) and *Malchus (monk of Maronia, ob. c. 380, S00463). | E03918 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 6 November probably *Domninos (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00190) or *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414), *Drosis (virgin and martyr of Antioch, S01189), and *Paul (the First Anchorite, S00089). | E05051 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 14 December. | E05669 | John Malalas, in his Chronographia (11.10), mentions the martyrdom of *Ignatios (bishop of Antioch, S00649), *Five Female Martyrs (of Antioch, S02138), and *Drosis (virgin and martyr of Antioch, S01189) under Trajan (r. 98-117). Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) or Constantinople, in the mid-6th c. | E08552 | Severus, bishop of Antioch, preaches On *Drosis (virgin and martyr of Antioch, S01189). Cathedral homily 5, delivered in Greek, probably in Antioch on the Orontes in 512. Preserved in a Greek fragment. |
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