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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Rufus, one of the seventy apostles and bishop of Thebes in Greece

Saint ID

S01836

Gender
Type of Saint
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03704The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Jerusalem, commemorates on 9 April *Kopres and Patermouthios and Alexandros (martyrs in Egypt under the emperor Julian, S01190), and Epiphanios, the new-martyr (unidentified) and probably *Rufus (one of the seventy apostles and bishop of Thebes in Greece, S01836) and *Agabos (one of the seventy apostles and martyr of Antioch, S01745).