Death of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

doi:10.21697/sc.2022.29.1.2

Published: 2022-10-03

Vol. 29 No. 1 (2022)

Death of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings

Section: Rozprawy i Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2022.29.1.2

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The purpose of this article is to answer the question of what the earliest Greek sources say about how the forty martyrs of Sebaste died. The article discusses each of these sources together with the context of their origin, if possible. The presented analysis concerns the sources’ accounts on the manner of the martyrs’ death: whether by immersion in water or by exposure to frost. The article presents the emergence of two different traditions about the way the martyrs died along with an assessment of their credibility.

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Katarzyna. (2022). Death of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. Saeculum Christianum. Historical Writings, 29(1), 21–30. https://doi.org/10.21697/sc.2022.29.1.2

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Instytut Historii Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie Poland

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Katarzyna Maria Dźwigała is an assistant professor in the Institute of History at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. She received PhD from the University of Warsaw in 2019. Her research interest is Late Antiquity, especially the times of emperor Constantine.