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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Jonah, Old Testament prophet

Saint ID

S01237

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Old Testament saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02524The 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.
E03457The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 10 December *Jonah (Old Testament prophet, S01237).
E03872The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 21 September *Paul (the First Anchorite, S00089), *Antony ('the Great', monk of Egypt, ob. 356, S00098) and *Jonah (the Old Testament prophet, S01237).
E03954The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 10 December *Jonah (the Old Testament prophet, S01237), *Amphilochos (theologian and bishop of Iconium, ob. c. 400, S01805) and *Spyridon (bishop of Trimythous (Cyprus), ob. 348, S00790).
E06491Jerome, in his Letter 108, describes how Paula travelled through Palestine in 385/6 and visited: Antipatris, place of imprisonment of *Paul (the Apostle, S00008); Lydda/Diospolis, associated with a visit and a healing by Paul; Arimathea, hometown of *Joseph of Arimathea (New Testament figure, S01787); Nob, burial-site of *Eighty-five priests (killed by Saul in the Old Testament, S02453); Joppa, associated with *Jonah (Old Testament Prophet, S01237); and Nicopolis/Emmaus, where Jesus consecrated as a church the house of *Cleopas (pupil of Jesus, S00249). Written in Latin, in Bethlehem, 404.