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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Marinos, martyr of Gindarus (Syria)

Saint ID

S02160

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E05065The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 26 December.
E05738John Malalas, in his Chronographia (18.49), reports that in 529 the relics of *Marinos (martyr of Gindarus, S02160) were miraculously found in Gindarus (Syria) and buried at the shrine of *Ioulianos (martyr of Cilicia buried at Antioch, S00305) at Antioch. Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) or Constantinople, in the mid-6th c.