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SERGIUS, ST

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SERGIUS, ST , generally associated with St Bacchus, one of the most celebrated martyrs of See also:Christian antiquity. His festival is on the 7th of See also:October, and the centre of his cult was Resafa, or Rosafa, in See also:Syria, in the See also:province of See also:Augusta Euphratesia. This See also:town, which since the See also:middle of the 6th See also:century was also called Sergiopolis, acquired importance as a See also:place of See also:pilgrimage, and became a See also:bishop's see (Le Quien, Oriens See also:Christ. ii. 951). The cult of the See also:saint spread rapidly. In 353 we find a See also:church of St Sergius at Eitha, in Batanaea (See also:Waddington, See also:Inscriptions de Syrie, n. 2124)—the most See also:ancient example of a See also:dedication of this See also:kind. In the 6th century St Sergius was honoured in the See also:West (See also:Gregory of See also:Tours, De gloria martyrum, 96). According to their Ada (which, however, have little authority), SS. Sergius and Bacchus were soldiers. In See also:art they are most generally represented in military See also:costume. See Ada sanctorum (October), iii.

833-883; Analecta Bollandiana, xiv. 373-395• (H. DE.) SERGIUS, the name of four popes.

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