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The Military Martyrs

Early 14th-century silver relief (6.5 x 6cm) depicting St. Demetrius and St. George, the reverse of an icon depicting Virgin and Child Jesus, at Vatopedi Monastery, Mt. Athos, Greece. See the Treasures of Mt. Athos.

Introduction

The Martyrs Treated Here

Some Calendars and Martyrologies

General Bibliography

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Early 14th-century steatite relief (6 x 5.5cm) depicting six military martyrs, at Vatopedi Monastery. These are Ss. George, Demetrius, and Theodore the Recruit (above), and Ss. Procopius, Mercurius, and Nestor (below). See the Treasures of Mt. Athos.

Introduction

The primary purpose of this site is to enable people to begin to explore the cult of the military martyrs during the late antique and early medieval periods by:

providing original translations of many of the primary sources which have yet to be translated into English as well as making earlier translations which have gone out of copyright available online;
summarizing the state of current research into the origin and growth of the cult of each these martyrs;
providing a bibliography of specialist works in respect of each martyr.

As the two reliefs above nicely illustrate, it is important to consider the cult of each individual military martyr in its full context, i.e. in the context of the cult of the other military martyrs also. This remains true from the earliest development of the cult of military martyrs in the 4th-century until its height, in both East and West, in the 14th-15th centuries. It remains true whether one is considering their cult from a literary or an artistic perspective. This is the fundamental principle underlying the construction of the present site.

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About the author in the website of the Dept. of Classics, University College Cork, Ireland
Excellent essays on the Cult of Martyrs in Late Roman Africa
Société des Bollandistes
Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Contains uncopyrighted English translations of patristic writings, including many of the acts of the early martyrs
Survey of Translations of Byzantine Saints' Lives
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Saints' Lives
Bibliographical Information Base in Patristics
For comparative purposes, on the continued persecution of Christians in the modern world, see, e.g., Compass Direct.
For an interlinear translation of the bible, see The Apostolic Bible project.

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