Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/EW/206

Seven Brothers

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
Early Christian
Floruit date range
? - ?
Description
Martyrs of the 2nd cent. Seven martyrs buried in different cemeteries of Rome, but there is no reliable evidence of their being brothers. Their feast was well attested in the early Roman sacramentaries. ODS, 474.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
None Martyr 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
7 10 yes Seven Brothers, Martyrs None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations