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ST SERGIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 667 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SERGIUS  , generally associated with St Bacchus, one of the most celebrated martyrs of Christian antiquity . His festival is on the 7th of
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October, and the centre of his cult was Resafa, or Rosafa, in
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Syria, in the province of
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Augusta Euphratesia . This
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town, which since the
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middle of the 6th century was also called Sergiopolis, acquired importance as a place of pilgrimage, and became a bishop's see (Le Quien, Oriens Christ. ii . 951) . The cult of the saint spread rapidly . In 353 we find a church of St
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Sergius at Eitha, in Batanaea (Waddington, Inscriptions de Syrie, n . 2124)—the most ancient example of a dedication of this kind . In the 6th century St Sergius was honoured in the West (Gregory of
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Tours, De gloria martyrum, 96) . According to their Ada (which, however, have little authority), SS . Sergius and Bacchus were soldiers . In
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art they are most generally represented in military 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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