The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity

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

Name

Micah, Old Testament prophet

Saint ID

S01236

Gender

Type of Saint

Old Testament saints

Related Evidence Records

ID	Title
E02524	The so-called Madaba Mosaic Map shows a number of labelled places of the cult of saints in the Holy Land (mainly monasteries). Found in Madaba (Roman province of Arabia). Probably mid-6th c.
E02609	Isidore of Seville in his Chronicle mentions the discovery of the bodies of Habbakkuk (S01236) and Micah (S01268), the Old Testament prophets, dated to the reign of Arcadius and Honorius (395-408). Written in Latin in Seville (southern Hispania), in two redactions, in 615/616 and 626.
E03905	The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 24 October Merkourios (soldier and martyr of Caesarea of Cappadocia,S01323), Micah (Old Testament Prophet, S01236), Varos (probably the martyr of Egypt buried in Palestine, S01212), Adrianos and Natalia (martyr of Nicomedia and his pious wife, S01342), Arethas and the Martyrs of Najran (ob. 522/523, S01492), Markianos (martyr of Constantinople, ob. c. 351, S01719), and *Sophia and her daughters (martyrs of Rome, S00554).
E03936	The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 24 November Agapios (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00188), bishop Eusebios (an unidentified figure), Merkourios (soldier and martyr of Caesarea of Cappadocia, S01323), Micah (the Old Testament prophet, S01236), and Catherine (martyr of Alexandria, S00765).
E04055	Sozomen, in his Ecclesiastical History (7.29), mentions the discovery of the tombs and relics of the Prophets Habbakuk (S01268) and Micah (S01236) in villages near Eleutheropolis in Palestine, after a dream vision revealed to the local bishop Zebennos, under Theodosius I (r. 379-395). Written in Greek at Constantinople, 439/450.
E06529	Jerome, in his Letter 108, describes how Paula travelled through Palestine in 385-6 and visited the spring that Samson caused to gush from the earth, and the tomb of *Micah (Old Testament Prophet, S01236), now a church. Written in Latin in Bethlehem (Palestine), 404.