词条 | Gelasinus |
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Gelasinus ({{lang-grc-gre|Γελασινος}}, Gelasinos; {{abbr|d.|died}} {{sc|ad}} 297) was a reputed Christian martyr and saint. His feast day is observed on August 26.{{sfnp|Forster|1828|p=[https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=F2K4iE_VTC0C&pg=PA239 239]}}{{sfnp|Butler|1799|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=BEBOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA402 402]}} Gelasinus was said to have been a Roman "second mime"{{sfnp|Ferguson|2009|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xC9GAdUGX5sC&pg=PA465 465]}} from Mariamme near Damascus.{{sfn|Charles|2007|p=209}} He converted in the middle of a theatrical contest at Heliopolis (the modern Baalbek, Lebanon).{{sfnp|Ferguson|2009|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xC9GAdUGX5sC&pg=PA465 465]}} During a group skit lampooning the sacrament of baptism, he was thrown into a vat of warm water from the bathhouse and emerged refusing to continue the routine, saying "I am a Christian for I saw an awesome glory in the tub and I will die a Christian".{{sfnp|Whitby & al.|1989|p=3}} Heliopolis was a center of zealous Roman and Canaanite paganism and the audience became enraged, taking him outside and stoning him. His kin and other Christians took his body and erected a chapel in his honor in their village.{{sfn|Charles|2007|p=209}}{{sfnp|Ferguson|2009|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xC9GAdUGX5sC&pg=PA465 465]}} His story is attested by the 7th-century Easter Chronicle in a hagiography of doubtful historicity, although it may preserve an authentic tradition.{{sfnp|Ferguson|2009|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xC9GAdUGX5sC&pg=PA465 465]}} See also
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