Theodor Stratelates

Theodor Stratelates, fresco, Semenkloster, 11th century?

Theodor Stratelates (d. 319) was a Roman military leader . He is venerated as a saint and arch-martyr in the Orthodox and Catholic Churches . His feast day is February 8th .

According to legend, Theodor Stratelates was a military leader in Heraclea Pontica . He refused to participate in a Roman sacrificial cult and was beheaded for it. In veneration he is mixed up with St. Theodor Tiro or Theodorus of Euchaïta (d. 306), who was executed for similar reasons. The files of Theodoros Stratelates are considered in research today as a re-formation and further development of the legends about Theodor Tiro, the identity of both figures cannot be doubted; Theodorus von Euchaïta and Theodor Tiro enjoy legal priority and cult status.

In the first monograph on a Russian work of art , Johann Alexander Döderlein deals with the icon of Theodor Stratelates in the Rieterkirche St. Marien and Christophorus in Kalbensteinberg .

Web links

Theodor Stratelates in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints

Individual evidence

↑ Otto Volk : Theodoros v. Euchaïta . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 9 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, Sp. 1411 .

personal data
SURNAME	Theodor Stratelates
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman military leader and saint
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century
DATE OF DEATH	319

[1] Otto Volk : Theodoros v. Euchaïta . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 9 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2000, Sp. 1411 .