For any researcher, the analysis of an encomiastical narrative presupposes, above all, the identification of possible sources of inspiration. Through the present study, we want to relate both to an encomiastical speech and to the sinaxer on which this eulogy stands. It is, therefore, about the Ephrem the Syrian’s homily to the forty martyrs and the relationship it develops with the hagiographic writing present in the Menaion. Are there any identifications between the two works? Is the Syrian author following the sinaxarial text? If so, to what extent? These are the first interrogations to which the first part of the study will respond. In the secondary part of the study, we will insert the full translation of this encomiastical word, accompanied by biblical occurrences.
