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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Areadne, martyr of Prymnessos

Saint ID

S01596

Number in BH

BHG 0165

Reported Death Not Before

117

Reported Death Not After

138

Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Slaves
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02474The Greek Martyrdom of *Areadne (martyr of Prymnessos, S01596) recounts the story of a young female slave who flees to the mountain in order to escape her persecutors, and is miraculously swallowed up by the earth; her feast is on 8 October. Written probably in Prymnessos (Phrygia, west central Asia Minor), in the 4th/6th c.