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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Samuel, Old Testament prophet

Saint ID

S01429

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Old Testament saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03356The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 20 August *Samuel (Old Testament prophet, S01429).
E03838The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 20 August *Samuel (Old Testament prophet, S01429).
E04560The Greek Life of *Daniel the Stylite (ob. 493, S00342) recounts the life and manifold miracles of an ascetic who, imitating *Symeon the Stylite (the Elder, ob. 459, S00343), lived on a pillar and founded a monastic community at Anaplous on the Bosphorus. The text mentions shrines of martyrs and prophets in Constantinople, the use of holy oil and images, and the transfer of relics of Symeon the Stylite and the *Three Hebrew Youths (of the Old Testament Book of Daniel, S01198) to Constantinople. Written in Constantinople, 493/518.
E05099Procopius of Caesarea, in his On Buildings, reports that the emperor Justinian (r. 527-565) renovated a great number of monasteries in the region of Jerusalem (and elsewhere in the East), many of them dedicated to saints. Written in Greek at Constantinople, in the 550s.
E07919Theodosius, in his On the Topography of the Holy Land, in a chapter on holy sites near Jerusalem, notes the burial places of *Samuel (Old Testament prophet, S01429) and *Jeremiah (Old Testament prophet, S01421). Written in Latin, perhaps in Africa, 518/540.
E07958The Paschal Chronicle records that in 406 the remains of *Samuel (Old Testament prophet, S01429) were brought to Constantinople, and in 411 were placed in a church dedicated to him, near the church of *John the Baptist (S00020) in the suburb of Hebdomon. Written in Greek at Constantinople, c. 630.
E08325Jerome responds to the treatise of the Gallic cleric Vigilantius, written and distributed in Gaul in the early 400s, which attacked some new religious practices, including the cult of relics. Jerome defends them all, justifies the cult of relics, and lists examples of their veneration. Against Vigilantius, written in Latin in Bethlehem (Palestine) in 406. Overview entry
E08340Jerome, responding to a no-longer extant treatise by Vigilantius criticising the cult of relics, written and distributed in Gaul in the early 400s, makes a distinction between the veneration of saints and the adoration of God, and mentions the translation to Constantinople of the relics of *Andrew (the Apostle, S00288), *Luke (the Evangelist, S00442) and Timothy (the disciple of Paul, S00466) undertaken by the emperor Constantius II, and of *Samuel (Old Testament prophet, S01429) by the emperor Arcadius. Against Vigilantius, written in Latin in Bethlehem (Palestine) in 406.