Name
Athanasios, governor of Egypt and martyr of Klysma
Saint ID
S01216
Number in BH
BHG 193
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
| ID | Title | E02420 | The Martyrdom of *Athanasios (governor of Egypt and martyr of Klysma, S01216), surviving only in Georgian, recounts how, when appointed to govern Egypt by Maximian, with instructions to combat Christianity, he instead encouraged it, and was martyred. Translated in or before the 8th c. from a lost Greek original. | E03804 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 18 July *Rachel (wife of the Old Testament patriarch Jacob, S00701); the deposition of relics of *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030), *John the Baptist (S00020), *Zechariah (father of John the Baptist, S00597) and forty unnamed martyrs (perhaps the *Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, S00103); *Tarachos, Probos and Andronikos (martyrs of Anazarbos, Cilicia, S00710); *Phokas (possibly the martyr of Antioch, S00413); *Athanasios (governor of Egypt and martyr of Klysma, S01216), here presented as a brother of *Sergios (soldier and martyr of Rusafa, S00023) and *Bakchos (soldier and martyr of Barbalissos, S00079); and *Dioskoros (probably the Decian martyr of Egypt, S00230). | E03805 | 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 July *Dios (possibly the monastic founder in Constantinople, ob. late 4th c., S01675), *Makrina the Younger (ascetic of Pontus, ob. 379, S00899), and *Kosmas and Damianos (brothers, physician martyrs of Syria, S00385), and *Athanasios (governor of Egypt and martyr of Klysma, S01216) | E06619 | The Greek Martyrdom of *Athanasios (governor of Egypt and martyr o Klysma, S01216). Skeleton entry |
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