Name
Forty Martyrs of Sinai and Forty Martyrs of Raithou (monks killed by Arab and Blemmyes raiders)
Saint ID
S01620
Number in BH
BHG 1300
Reported Death Not Before
373
Reported Death Not After
500
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Ascetics/monks/nuns, Groups and pairs of saints
| ID | Title | E03972 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 28 December *Paul (the Apostle, S00008) and *Peter (the Apostle, S00036), *John (Apostle and Evangelist, S00042), Theodore (patriarch of Constantinople, ob. 687), and the massacre of the *Martyrs of Sinai and Raithou (monks killed by Arab and Blemmyes raiders, S01620). | E04343 | Greek inscriptions/graffiti invoking the God of *All Saints, the intercession of *Mary (Mother of Christ, S00033), *Sergios (soldier and martyr of Rusafa, S00023), *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030), probably the *Forty Martyrs (of Sebasteia, S00103, or of the Sinai Desert, S01620), and saints whose names are lost. Found in Room 7 at the North Church at Nessana/Auja Hafir in the Negev desert (Roman province of Palaestina III). Probably 5th-7th c. | E06949 | The Narrative of Ammonius on the *Forty Martyrs of Sinai and Forty Martyrs of Raithou (S01620) tells the story of the martyrdom on the very same day, at the hands Saracen and Blemmyes raiders, of eighty monks of the Sinai peninsula. Written in Greek, possibly at Mount Sinai or Raithou, probably in the 5th/6th c. | E08287 | Pseudo-Neilos' Narrations of the Slaughter of the Monks of Mount Sinai and the Capture of Theodulos tells the story of a barbarian attack on Mount Sinai, in which several monks are killed, and of the abduction and eventual freedom of a boy named Theodulos. Written in Greek, somewhere in the East, between the late 4th and the 6th c. Skeleton entry |
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