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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Athanasios, bishop and martyr of Tarsus

Saint ID

S02380

Number in BH

BHG 181-182

Reported Death Not Before

253

Reported Death Not After

260

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03841The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 23 August *Athanasios (bishop of Alexandria, S00294), *Basil (bishop of Caesarea, S00780), *Gregory (bishop of Nyssa, S01357), *Gregory (the Theologian, of Nazianzos, S00837), *John Chrysostom (bishop of Constantinople, S00779), *Epiphanios (bishop of Salamis, S00215), *Kyrillos (bishop of Jerusalem, ob. 386, S01569), *Lucius (martyr in Cyrene under Diocletian, S01792), probably *Sarmiane (katholikos of Georgia, 6th c., S01793), *Gerasimos (anchorite, founder of a monastery in the Judean desert, ob. 475., S01507), and *Athanasios (bishop and martyr of Tarsus, S01794).
E06618The Greek Martyrdom of *Athanasios (bishop and martyr of Tarsus, S02380). Skeleton entry