Homily on the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

In sanctos quadraginta martyres · Basil of Caesarea · c. 370-378 · homily

Greek · domain: cappadocian · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

Homily XIX in NPNF's classified list of Basil's genuine homilies ('XIX. In sanctos quadraginta martyres', https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf208/npnf208.vi.ii.v.html); NPNF ser. 2 vol. 8 itself prints none of the martyr homilies (https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf208/npnf208.toc.html). Popular Patristics 50 (On Fasting and Feasts, 2013) translates the Julitta, Mamas and Barlaam homilies but not this one (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,On%20fasting%20and%20feasts%20Basil&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and Fathers of the Church 9 (Ascetical Works) and 46 (Exegetic Homilies) contain no panegyric homilies. HOLLIS searches 'Basil forty martyrs' (21 records, all studies or saints' lives) and 'quadraginta martyres Basil' (0 records) return no English translation of the homily (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Basil%20forty%20martyrs&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Widely quoted in studies of fourth-century Cappadocian martyr cult, but no English version of the homily itself was located. PG 31 cited at volume level (The archive.org item is cited at volume level: it is the Migne volume for this author (PG volume-to-author mapping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrologia_Graeca), but the work's exact place in the volume was not verified page by page.).

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1857) patrologiae_cursus_completus_gr_vol_031

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Basil of Caesarea — 828 record(s); match basis author_only.

Record	Citation
Basil of Caesarea Rousseau, Philip · 2023 · eng	Rousseau, Philip. "Basil of Caesarea." Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2023]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158718681303941
Basil of Caesarea Hildebrand, Stephen M., 1973- · 2018 · eng	Hildebrand, Stephen M., 1973-. "Basil of Caesarea." Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153682005403941
Basil of Caesarea Hildebrand, Stephen M., 1973- · 2014 · eng	Hildebrand, Stephen M., 1973-. "Basil of Caesarea." Grand Rapids : Baker Academic, [2014]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990140230260203941
Basil of Caesarea Rousseau, Philip · 1998 · eng	Rousseau, Philip. "Basil of Caesarea." Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1998]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153548989103941
Basil of Caesarea Rousseau, Philip · 1994 · eng	Rousseau, Philip. "Basil of Caesarea." Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990031476870203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Homily on the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-basil-forty-martyrs