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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Eustathios, Thespesios and Anatolios, martyrs of Nicaea

Saint ID

S01781

Number in BH

BHG 2139

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Groups and pairs of saints
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03814The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 28 July *Eustathios (soldier and martyr of Ancyra S01501), *Ephrem (possibly poet and theologian of Edessa, ob. 373, S01238), *Euphemia (martyr of Chalcedon, S00017), *Anatolios (possibly martyr of Nicaea under Maximian, S01781), *Pantaleōn / Panteleēmōn (martyr of Nicomedia, during the Diocletian persecution of 305, S00596), *Symeon the Elder (stylite of Qal‘at Sim‘ān, S00343), and, as a later addition, John the Bishop of Chalcedon and confessor during Iconoclasm.
E06802The Greek Martyrdom of *Eustathios, Thespesios and Anatolios (martyrs of Nicaea under Maximian, S01781). Skeleton entry