ST See also:

• ST SERGIUS

SERGIUS  , generally associated with St Bacchus, one of the most celebrated martyrs of See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian antiquity . His festival is on the 7th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October, and the centre of his cult was Resafa, or Rosafa, in See also:

• SYRIA

Syria, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• AUGUSTA

Augusta Euphratesia . This See also:

• TOWN

town, which since the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 6th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century was also called Sergiopolis, acquired importance as a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of See also:

• PILGRIMAGE (Fr. pelerinage, Lat. peregrinatio)

pilgrimage, and became a See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop's see (Le Quien, Oriens See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ. ii . 951) . The cult of the See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

saint spread rapidly . In 353 we find a See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of St See also:

• SERGIUS, ST

Sergius at Eitha, in Batanaea (See also:

• WADDINGTON, WILLIAM HENRY (1826–1894)

Waddington, See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

Inscriptions de Syrie, n . 2124)—the most See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient example of a See also:

• DEDICATION (Lat. dedicatio, from dedicare, to proclaim, to announce)

dedication of this See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind . In the 6th century St Sergius was honoured in the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

West (See also:

• GREGORY
• GREGORY (Gregorius)
• GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
• GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
• GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
• GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
• GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
• GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)

Gregory of See also:

• TOURS

Tours, De gloria martyrum, 96) . According to their Ada (which, however, have little authority), SS . Sergius and Bacchus were soldiers . In See also:

• ART

art they are most generally represented in military See also:

• COSTUME
• COSTUME (through the Fr. costume, from Ital. costume, Late Lat. costuma, a contracted form of Lat. consuetudinem, ace. of consuetudo, custom, habit, manner, &c.)

costume . See Ada sanctorum (October), iii .

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