Eustathios 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE/M VIII
Dates739 (taq) / 741 (ob.)
PmbZ No.1751
ReligionChristian
LocationsCarrhae (deathplace);
Sideroun;
Carrhae
Textual SourcesChronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle);
Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, La chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris, 1899-1904) (chronicle);
Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle)

Eustathios 2 was the son of Marianos patrikios (Marianos 2): Theoph. AM 6230 (Εὐστάθιον, τὸν υἱὸν Μαριανοῦ τοῦ πατρικίου), Theoph. AM 6232 (Εὐστάθιος, ὁ μακάριος υἱός Μαριανοῦ τοῦ περιβλέπτου πατρικίου), Chron. 1234, §166 (cited below). In 739 he was captured by Sulayman 2, apparently when the stronghold of Sideroun was sacked: Theoph. AM 6230. In 741, together with other Christians (Χριστιανούς) held captive by the Arabs, he was tortured but refused to abjure his faith and suffered martyrdom at Carrhae in Mesopotamia; his relics were preserved there and in later days were credited with working miraculous cures: Theoph. AM 6232, cf. Chron. 1234, §166 (p. 313) ("so Eustathios son of Marianos was killed, who was confined in Harran"; they were supposedly all killed after news came that all Arab prisoners on Roman territory had been killed by the emperor Leo III, i.e. Leo 3), Mich. Syr. II 501 (the same story).

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