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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Methodios of Olympus, theologian, bishop and martyr

Saint ID

S01694

Gender
Type of Saint
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03738The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 13 May *Epiphanios (bishop of Salamis, S00215), *Theoktistos (hermit and follower of Euthymios the Great, 5th c., S01622), and *Methodios of Olympus, theologian, bishop and martyr, ob. 311, S01694).
E07907Jerome in several of the brief biographical notes in his On illustrious men, mentions the deaths as martyrs of Christian authors. Written in Latin in Bethlehem (Palestine), 392/393.