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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Zosimas, ascetic in Palestine, 5th c.

Saint ID

S01834

Gender
Type of Saint
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03710The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 15 April *Leonidas and his companions (martyrs of Corinth, S01004), *Marcian (Roman emperor, ob. 457, S01495), possibly *Kopres (martyr in Egypt under Julian, S01190), *Sabas (martyr of the Danube region, buried at Caesarea of Cappadocia, S00489) and probably *Zosimas (ascetic in Palestine, 5th c., S01834).
E04901Evagrius Scholasticus, in his Ecclesiastical History (4.7), mentions miracles of the early 6th c. holy men *Zosimas (monk near Tyre in Phoenicia, ob. 6th c., S01834) and *Ioannes (monk of Choziba and bishop of Caesarea, both in Palestine, ob. c. 535, S02030). Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria), 593/594.