Name
Agathangelos, bishop and martyr of Damascus
Saint ID
S01252
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
ID | Title | E02574 | The Martyrdom of *Agathangelos (bishop and martyr of Damascus, S01252), surviving only in Georgian, recounts the many wonderful miracles and conversions effected by Agathangelos in Damascus under the emperor Severus Alexander, and his subsequent martyrdom under the emperor Gordian. Translated before the 9th c. from a lost Greek original. | E03638 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 8 February *Romelios (perhaps one of the *Eight martyrs of Caesarea of Palestine, S00198), *Polycarp/Polykarpos (bishop and martyr of Smyrna, S00004), *Agathangelos (bishop and martyr of Damascus, S01252), and *Theognios (bishop of Betelia, near Gaza, S01506). |
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