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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Kopres, Patermouthios and Alexandros, martyrs in Egypt under the emperor Julian

Saint ID

S01190

Number in BH

G 1429

Reported Death Not Before

362

Reported Death Not After

363

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Groups and pairs of saints, Martyrs, Ascetics/monks/nuns
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02212Fragmentary 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.
E03704The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 9 April *Kopres and Patermouthios and Alexandros (martyrs in Egypt under the emperor Julian, S01190), and Epiphanios, the new-martyr (unidentified) and probably *Rufus (one of the seventy apostles and bishop of Thebes in Greece, S01836) and *Agabos (one of the seventy apostles and martyr of Antioch, S01745).
E03705The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 10 April *Terentios (martyr of Carthage, S01431), *Patermouthios and Kopres (martyrs in Egypt under the emperor Julian, S01190).
E03710The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 15 April *Leonidas and his companions (martyrs of Corinth, S01004), *Marcian (Roman emperor, ob. 457, S01495), possibly *Kopres (martyr in Egypt under Julian, S01190), *Sabas (martyr of the Danube region, buried at Caesarea of Cappadocia, S00489) and probably *Zosimas (ascetic in Palestine, 5th c., S01834).
E03721The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 26 April *Hesychios (martyr of Antioch, S01034), *Adrianos and Natalia (martyr of Nicomedia and his pious wife, S01342), *George (soldier and martyr, S00259), *Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S01804), *Thyrsos (martyr of Bithynia, S00612) and *Alexandros and his companions (possibly martyrs in Egypt under Julian, S01190), *Mark (the Evangelist, S00293), and *Basileus (bishop and martyr of Amasea S01634).