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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Basilissa, martyr of Nicomedia

Saint ID

S01881

Number in BH

BHG 2058

Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E05106The Greek Martyrdom of *Basilissa (martyr of Nicomedia, S01881) recounts the story of its heroine who survives the torture of martyrdom, brings about the conversion of her persecutor, and dies next to a miraculous spring of water near Nicomedia (north-west Asia Minor). Written, probably at Nicomedia, during Late Antiquity.