Name
Melchizedek, Old Testament king and priest of Salem
Saint ID
S01783
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Old Testament saints
| 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). | E06658 | Aldhelm, in his prose On Virginity, concludes his list of exemplary virgins with the ultimately non-virginal Old Testament figures *Joseph (patriarch, S00277), *David (king of Israel, S00269), *Samson (judge of the Israelites, S02496), *Abel (second son of Adam, S02497), *Melchizedek (king and priest of Salem, S01783), and *Judith (S02498). Written in Latin in southern Britain, for the nuns at the monastery at Barking (south-east Britain), c. 675/686. | E07940 | The pilgrim Egeria, in her Itinerary, travelling up the Jordan valley comes to Sedima (biblical Salem, Palestine), where she visits a church 'at *Melchizedech' (Old Testament king and priest of Salem, S01783). Written in Latin during Egeria's journey to the East, probably in 381-384. |
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