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Chios, Islands off Ionia, 310 - 290 B.C.
According to Chian tradition, the Apostle Paul passed through Chios on his way to Greece in 54 A.D., but this has no historical basis. The first person to teach Christianity on the island was St. Isidore, the island’s great protector and patron saint. He was an officer in the Roman navy and arrived at Chios with a Roman fleet in 250 A.D. In 252, Isidore confessed himself as a Christian to the fleet commander. Unwilling to repent and worship the gods of the state, he was tormented and beheaded, and his body cast into a cistern. According to tradition, his friends, also destined to martyrdom, retrieved the body and interred it properly. On his grave miraculous recoveries were reported and a chapel was built. St Isidore’s veneration spread in all the Mediterranean sea and he became a sailors' protector. In 1125 his remains were brought from Chios to the Venetian Basilica of St. Mark, which contains a small chapel containing the sarcophagus.GB91404. Bronze AE 13, Mavrogordato 58β; SNG Cop 1557, HGC 6 1156 (R1), SNGvA -, BMC Ionia -, VF, olive patina, well centered on a tight flan, crude workmanship, blundered inscriptions, Islands of Ionia, Chios mint, weight 2.296g, maximum diameter 13.1mm, die axis 0o, 310 - 290 B.C.; obverse sphinx seated left left, curled wing, bunch of grapes before; reverse Chian amphora, caduceus outer left, XIOΣ downward on left, HIΘEOΣ (magistrate) downward on right; from the Maxwell Hunt Collection; rare; SOLD
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