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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Stratonikos, soldier and martyr in Ptolemais under Aurelian

Saint ID

S01657

Gender
Type of Saint
Related Evidence Records
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E03892The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 11 October *Paulos and Ioulianna (martyrs in Ptolemais, S01535), *Stratonikos (solider and martyr in Ptolemais under Aurelian, S01657), and *Tarachos (martyr of Anazarbus in Cilicia, S00710).
E05744John Malalas, in his Chronographia (18.129), mentions the shrines of *Stratonikos (martyr venerated near Constantinople, S02163; perhaps the martyr of Ptolemais, S01657) and *Alexandros (martyr of Dryzipera, S00070) in the Thracian suburbs of Constantinople, in the context of a barbarian attack against Constantinople in 559. Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) or Constantinople, in the 560s.