The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity

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

Name

Viktor and Stephanis/Corona, martyrs of Damascus

Saint ID

S01630

Number in BH

BHG 1864

Reported Death Not Before

161

Reported Death Not After

180

Gender

Male
Female

Type of Saint

Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints, Soldiers

Related Evidence Records

ID	Title
E03826	The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th century, based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 8 August Theodore (soldier and martyr of Amaseia and Euchaita, S00480), Thyrsos (martyr of Bithynia, S00612), Sergios (soldier and martyr of Rusafa, S00023), possibly Elianos (martyr of Amman, S00889) or Emilianos, a 9th c. confessor under Leo the Armenian, Viktor and Stephanis/Corona (martyrs of Damascus, S01620) and Marinus (identity uncertain) and Melchizedek (king and priest of the Old Testament, S01783).
E03884	The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 3 October Viktor and Stephanis/Corona (martyrs of Damascus, S01630) and Dionysios the Areopagite (New Testament figure, S00876).
E03923	The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 11 November Viktor and Stephanis (martyrs of Damascus, S01630), Menas (soldier and martyr of Abu Mena, S00073), and *Ioannes/John the Almsgiver (patriarch of Alexandria, ob. 616/620, 01659).
E04606	The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 11 January.
E04887	The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 20 July.
E04888	The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 21 July.
E05550	Bede, in his Martyrology, records the feast on 14 May in Syria of *Victor and Corona/Stephanis (martyrs of Damascus, S01630). Written in Latin at Wearmouth-Jarrow (north-east Britain), 725/731.
E06670	The Greek Martyrdom of *Viktor and Stephanis/Corona (martyrs of Damascus, S01630) recounts the torture and execution of the soldier Viktor and the young Christian woman Stephanis. Probably written c. 400-650 somewhere in the East, possibly in Damascus.
E08315	35 relic labels at Sens (northern Gaul), datable by their script to the 7th or 8th c., for relics of a great diversity of saints. Written in Latin, perhaps at Sens, or at an earlier stage in their transmission.