SINNADA OF PHRYGIA. - It is the present-day Çifitkasaba, formerly a metropolitan see of Phrygia Salutaris, now a titular archiepiscopal see (Ann. Pont. 1952, p. 594).

During the persecution of Probus, Sts. Trophimus, Sabatius and Dorimedon were martyred; of their Passio there are two recensions and a fragment of a third edited by G. Mercati (Note di letteratura cristiana antica [Studi e testi, 5], Rome 1901, p. 207 ff.). Their martyrdom is depicted in the Menologion of Basil II (Cod. Vat. gr. 1613, p. 15).

SINNADA of PHRYGIA - Stone reliquary of St. Trophimus (4th century) - Brousse, Ottoman Museum.
(from Bulletin de correspondance hellénique, 33 (1909), p. 313, fig. 16)

In the Syriac Martyrology S. is mentioned several times: on 19 July for the martyrs Macedonius and Tatian of Meros, sacrificed at S. (under the same date in the Hieronymian); on 30 July for the martyrs Democritus, Secundus and Dionysius, on 13 Aug. for the martyr Antoninus (in the Hieronymian on that date he is indicated as bishop) and on 20 Sept. for Dorimedon, martyred together with Trophimus and Sabbatius of Antioch of Pisidia; in the Hieronymian Trophimus is on 19 Sept. and Dorimedon on 20 Sept.

Near S. was found a stone reliquary in the shape of a small sarcophagus with a gabled lid, fitted with acroteria and fastened with iron clamps; on the outside of the lid itself was a Greek inscription declaring that the reliquary contained the relic of the skull of St. Trophimus (its remains were found inside); another inscription, also in Greek, was on the front of the small sarcophagus; W. M. Calder held that it was later than the persecution of Maximinus or that of Licinius; for P. Franchi de' Cavalieri it is not necessary to lower its date as far as the triumph of the Church. The precious reliquary is today in the Ottoman Museum of Broussa.

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BIBL.: G. Mendel, Catal. des monuments grecs rom. et byzant. du Musée impérial ottoman de Brousse, in Bull. de corresp. hellénique, 33 (1909), p. 343 ff.; W. Ramsay, A martyr of the third century, in Expositor, 1910, pp. 481-85; W. M. Calder, Some monuments of the great persecution, in Bull. of the John Rylands Library, 8 (1924), p. 345 ff.; P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, Del martirio di s. Trofimo e di alcune epige. crist. dell'Asia Min., in Note Agigrafiche, 7 (Studi e testi, 49), Città del Vaticano 1928, pp. 105-45; H. Delehaye, Les orig. du culte des martyrs, 2e ed., Bruxelles 1933, p. 159.

Enrico Josi

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Sinnada of Phrygia

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