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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Eustathios, bishop of Antioch, ob. c. 337

Saint ID

S01316

Number in BH

BHG 644-644e

Reported Death Not Before

330

Reported Death Not After

340

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops , "Confessors"
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02259John Chrysostom, in his homily On *Eustathios (bishop of Antioch, ob. 4th c., S01316), delivered during a service held at Antioch, stresses that, although buried in Thrace (eastern Balkans), the saint is revered in Antioch, and, although his death was peaceful, he can still be called a martyr. Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) in the late 380s.
E03651The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 21 February *Adrianos and Natalia (martyr of Nicomedia and his pious wife, S01342), *Polycarp/Polykarpos (bishop and martyr of Smyrna, S00004), and *Eustathios (bishop of Antioch, ob. 337, S01316).
E05011The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 6 November.
E08092Theodore Lector's Ecclesiastical History (28/epitome 435) states that the remains of *Eustathios (bishop of Antioch, ob. c. 337, S01316) were translated from Philippi in Macedonia to Antioch (Syria) in 479/484. Work originally written in Greek at either Gangra, northern Asia Minor, or Constantinople, c. 518/519, but only surviving in later, abbreviated versions.