Name
Demetrios, bishop of Alexandria (189–232)
Saint ID
S01935
Reported Death Not Before
231
Reported Death Not After
232
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops , Married but sexually abstinent
| ID | Title | E04960 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 18 September. | E04961 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 19 September. | E05117 | Coptic Encomion on *Demetrios (bishop of Alexandria, ob. 232, S01935), attributed to Flavianus, bishop of Ephesos, and presented on his feast day, discussing the saint’s combat against sinful behaviour and the miraculous protection of his and his wife’s body against fire; relating also the story of *Martyria, a native of Antioch who travelled with her two young sons Eutropius and Philopator (martyrs at Antioch, S01936) to Alexandria to have them baptised by *Petros (bishop and martyr of Alexandria, S00247); allegedly written in the late 4th or mid 5th century. | E06234 | The Greek Martyrdom of *Petros (bishop and martyr of Alexandria, S00247) recounts the protagonist's last days, his martyrdom and the tumult surrounding his burial in a western suburb of Alexandria. The story also features his successor *Alexandros (bishop of Alexandria, ob. 326/328, S00733) and mentions the four martyred Egyptian bishops commemorated by Eusebius of Caesarea: *Phileas (bishop of Thmuis, martyr of Alexandria, S00125), *Hesychios (S00248), *Pachomios (Pachymios, S00156) and *Theodoros (S02704), as well as several of the preceding archbishops of Alexandria. It also provides details about the martyrium and tomb of *Mark the Evangelist (S00293) in the quarter of Alexandria called ta Boukolou. Written in Alexandria, probably in the 5th century, possibly with later additions by the early 7th century. |
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