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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Hermolaos, Hermippos and Hermokrates, priests of the Church of Nicomedia and martyrs under Maximian

Saint ID

S01780

Gender
Type of Saint
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03812The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 26 July the martyrdom of *Thekla (follower of Apostle Paul, S00092), *Hermolaos (priest of the Church of Nicomedia and martyr under Maximian, S01780).
E05714John Malalas, in his Chronographia (12.45), mentions the martyrdom of *Pantoleon/Panteleemon (martyr of Nicomedia, S00596), *Hermolaos, Hermippos, and Hermokrates (martyrs of Nicomedia, S01780), and *Hesychios (martyr of Nicomedia, S00971, or Antioch S01034) under Maximian Galerius (r. 305-311). Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) or Constantinople, in the mid-6th c.