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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Dioskoros, monk and bishop of Hermopolis Parva, ob. 402/3

Saint ID

S01264

Reported Death Not Before

402

Reported Death Not After

403

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns, Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02728Palladius of Helenopolis, in his Historical Dialogue on the Life of John Chrysostom, of 408 or shortly after, reports that, the Egyptian ascetic *Ammonios (ascetic of Kellia, ob. 403, S01263) was buried in 405 at the shrine of the Apostles across the sea from Constantinople (at Rufinianae, near Chalcedon); his tomb heals fevers. And that the Egyptian bishop and ascetic *Dioskoros (S01264) is buried at a martyr-shrine (martyrion) just outside Constantinople (presumably that of *Mokios, martyr of Byzantion, S01265). His tomb attracts more devotion than that of the martyr. Written in Greek at Syene (Aswan, Upper Egypt).
E02729Sozomen, in his Ecclesiastical History (8.17), mentions the shrine and monastery of the Apostles *Peter and *Paul (S00036 and S00008), founded by the patrician Rufinus (ob. 395), on his estate near Chalcedon (north-west Asia Minor, near Constantinople). In 403, it became the venue of the Council of the Oak, and resting place of the Egyptian ascetic *Ammonios (ascetic of Kellia, ob. 403, S01263), companion of the ascetic and bishop *Dioskoros (S01264), who was buried at the shrine of *Mokios (martyr of Byzantion, S01265) in Constantinople. Written in Greek at Constantinople, 439/450.