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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Stratonikos, martyr venerated at Rhegium (Constantinople)

Saint ID

S02163

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E05744John Malalas, in his Chronographia (18.129), mentions the shrines of *Stratonikos (martyr venerated near Constantinople, S02163; perhaps the martyr of Ptolemais, S01657) and *Alexandros (martyr of Dryzipera, S00070) in the Thracian suburbs of Constantinople, in the context of a barbarian attack against Constantinople in 559. Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) or Constantinople, in the 560s.