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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Flavianos, bishop of Constantinople, ob. 449

Saint ID

S02069

Reported Death Not Before

449

Reported Death Not After

449

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E05480Leo the Great, writing in Latin in Rome in 451, refers to the translation to Constantinople and burial of the remains of *Flavianos (bishop of Constantinople, ob. 449, S02069); account in two letters, to the empress Pulcheria and emperor Marcian.
E05481The empress Pulcheria, writing in Latin in Constantinople in 451, refers to the translation and burial of the remains of *Flavianos (bishop of Constantinople, ob. 449, S02069) in the church of the Holy *Apostles (S02422) at Constantinople.
E08017The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor (AM 5942) states that the empress Pulcheria translated from Ephesus the remains of *Flavianos (bishop of Constantinople, ob. 449, S02069) and had them reburied in the church of the Holy *Apostles (S02422) at Constantinople in 450. Chronicle compiled in the Byzantine Empire in the early 9th c., using extracts from earlier Greek texts.