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- ↑ Roman Martyrology
- ↑ A New Dictionary of the Saints: East and West, by Michael J. Walsh
- ↑ Sahner, Christian C. (2020) Christian Martyrs Under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World, p. 167.
- ↑ Hugh N. Kennedy, The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East, Ashgate Publishing 2006, p. 333.
- 1 2 Stephen J. Shoemaker, ed., Three Christian Martyrdoms from Early Islamic Palestine: Passion of Peter of Capitolias, Passion of the Twenty Martyrs of Mar Saba, Passion of Romanos the Neo-Martyr (Brigham Young University Press, 2016; published online by Brill, 2019), pp. xv–xxx.
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