Name
Gelasinos, mime and martyr of Heliopolis in Phoenicia, ob. 311-324
Saint ID
S02157
Reported Death Not Before
311
Reported Death Not After
324
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
| ID | Title | E02497 | The Latin Martyrdom of *Genesius (mime artist and martyr of Rome or Arles, S00508). It narrates Genesius mocking Christians through mime, his conversion as he mimed baptism and had a vision of angels, the tortures he endured and his death. Written at an uncertain place and date, perhaps in central Italy, by the early 9th c. at the latest. | E05715 | John Malalas, in his Chronographia (12.50), mentions the martyrdom of *Gelasinos (mime and martyr of Heliopolis in Phoenicia, S02157) under Licinius (r. 311-324). Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) or Constantinople, in the mid-6th c. |
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