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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Theodoretos, martyr of Antioch under the emperor Julian

Saint ID

S01382

Number in BH

BHG 2425

Reported Death Not Before

362

Reported Death Not After

363

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03068The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 27 March *Theodoretos (martyr of Antioch, S01382).
E03692The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 28 March *Theodoretos (martyr of Antioch under Julian, S01382), *Isaac (Old Testament patriarch, S00276), and *Basil (bishop and martyr of Cherson, S01606).
E04103Sozomen, in his Ecclesiastical History (5.7-11), lists martyrs and confessors who suffered under Julian the Apostate (r. 361-363), probably using hagiographies about them. These are *Georgios (Arian bishop of Alexandria, S01145), Theodoros/Theodoretos (martyr of Antioch, S01382), the brothers *Eusebios, Nestavos and Zenon, and Nestor (martyrs of Gaza in Palestine, S01653), *Hilarion (anchorite in Palestine and Cyprus, ob. 371, S00099), *Virgin Martyrs of Heliopolis-Baalbek (S01564), *Markos (bishop and confessor of Arethousa in Syria, S01563), *Makedonios, Theodoulos and Tatianos (martyrs of Meros in Phrygia, west central Asia Minor,S01566), *Bousiris the Encratite (confessor of Ancyra, central Asia Minor, S01567), the presbyter *Basileios of Ancyra (martyr, S01565), and *Eupsychios (martyr of Kaisareia in Cappadocia, central Asia Minor, S00470). Written in Greek at Constantinople, 439/450.
E05044The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 7 December.
E06752The Greek Martyrdom of *Theodoretos (martyr of Antioch, under the emperor Julian, S01382). Skeleton entry