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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Dorothea, virgin martyr of Caesarea in Cappadocia, Asia Minor

Saint ID

S01898

Number in BH

BHL 2321-2325e

Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Virgins
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E04670The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 6 February.
E06627Aldhelm, in his prose On Virginity, names *Scholastica (nun of central Italy, ob. c. 543, S01728), *Christina (martyr of Tyre and Bolsena, S00907), and *Dorothea (virgin and martyr of Caesarea, S01898) as exemplary virgins. Written in Latin in southern Britain, for the nuns at the monastery at Barking (south-east Britain), c. 675/686.