Talk:Acacius of Sebaste

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Date problems

The date of death in the infobox does not match the category death date (these are all century dates); needs checking --FeanorStar7 00:58, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We have a problem (Acacius of Sebaste being confused with other saints)

St. Acacius of Sebaste likely existed; there is an entry for him at Catholic Online (alas, when I added a reference to that site I soon realized that Catholic Online may have cribbed their entry from this very Wikipedia article) and also at CatholicSaints.info, which helpfully lists several reference texts in which the generally accepted account of this saint's life may be found. Unfortunately, I do not own any of the books they list. To increase the reliability of this article, it would be excellent for somebody to pick up one of those texts and cite it to back up the claims this article makes about Acacius of Sebaste.

As a compounding factor, this Wikipedia article appears to have confused Acacius of Sebaste with Acacius of Melitene, who was an entirely different person, the subject of the Catholic Encyclopedia article (formerly) referenced by this article in the This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. Acacius". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. thingy. There are numerous sources regarding his life, which are quite clear in making him distinct from Acacius of Sebaste. (For one thing, Acacius of Sebaste apparently has his feastday on November 27 while every source I've found on Acacius of Melitene indicate he was venerated on March 31.) Also, Acacius of Sebaste is listed as bishop of Antioch in some accounts, but unless there's multiple saints named Acacius venerated on March 31, then I sincerely doubt there's a third Acacius of Antioch.

Acacius of Melitene is not to be confused with Acacius of Miletus, who apparently also existed.

Now, the problem here is that the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and pretty much every older Christian Church which chooses saints has so many saints that pretty much everyone has lost count. Also, since some of these saints bore relatively common names (or later generations had people named after those saints, who then became saints, and so forth and so forth), a lot of confusion happened -- which is what I'm pretty sure just happened here (and went uncorrected for years, yikes). We can easily create articles on the other saints (especially Acacius of Melitene, who is definitely notable on account of all the other entries for him I'm finding in reference texts). Someone's going to need to look up this guy and fix this article up so it's better than a stub. For my part, I'm going to move this page titled "Saint Acacius" to "Acacius of Sebaste", fix all the links that'll get messed up, and then redirect the "Saint Acacius" page to the general disambiguation page on people named Acacius.

I hope I covered everything. Somebody stop me if I'm wrong. RexSueciae (talk) 08:27, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Turns out that Acacius of Melitene already exists. Huh, I didn't realize. RexSueciae (talk) 08:41, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

After the successful move, I think that there aren't any double redirects left standing, but I'll keep an eye out. RexSueciae (talk) 08:59, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]