Selected Acts of Persian Martyrs

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Selected Files of Persian Martyrs is a collection of martyrs' files from Persia . Oskar Braun published the translations from the Greek as a volume in the Library of the Church Fathers series in 1915 in Kempten . It contains biographical material on various martyrs and saints.

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It is about the following people:

  • Schâpûr, Bishop of Bêt Nikâtôr; Isaac, Bishop of Karkâ de Bêt Slôk; Ma'nâ; Abraham and Simon, condemned at Bêt Pârsâjê; their relics were kept in Edessa .
  • Mâr Simon, Catholicos of the Oriental Church; Gadjahb and Sâbinâ, bishops of Bêt Lâpat ; Johannan, Bishop of Hôrmizd Ardaschîr; Bôlida ', Bishop of Prât de Maischân; Johannan, Bishop of Karkâ de Maischân; and ninety-seven priests and deacons; the chief eunuch Gûhaschtazâd, title: Arzabed; Karogbed Pûsai, foreman and his daughter.
  • Pûsai , gold sticker, head of the community and Marta, his daughter
  • Azad, a eunuch, friend of Gûhaschtazâd
  • Amarjâ and Mekkajjemâ, who were among the first bishops of Bêt Lapät; the priest Hôrmîzd from the city of Schûschter ;
  • Tarbô, a "federal daughter" and comrades
  • Schâdôst, bishop of Seleucia and Ctesiphon and one hundred and twenty-eight martyrs
  • one hundred and eleven men and women; Jazdândôcht, a rich woman from Arbel, who is also mentioned in the martyrdom of 'Akebsohemâ and comrades.
  • Catholicos Barba'schmin and sixteen companions
  • Jacob, the priest of the village of Tellä Schallilä and his sister Maria
  • The federal daughters Tekla, Maria, Marta, Maria and Emmi (Ἐμμεείμ) from the village of Kaschâz
  • Bishop Heliodorus, the aged priests Dausâ and Mârjahb from Bêt Zabdai
  • Bishop 'Akebschemâ, Priest Joseph and Deacon Aitillâhâ from Hnaitâ; the name of their village was Pakâ; Pâpâ Bâdôkâ;
  • Mâr 'Abdâ, Bishop of Hôrmîzd Ardaschîr; Priests Hâshû and Isaac; Schreiber's Aprem; Hypodiacons pâpâ; Dâdûk and Dûrtân and Pâpâ, brother of the holy Mâr 'Abdâ.
  • Federal son Narsê from Bêt Râzîkâjê, Schâpûr, a friend of the blessed Narsê and Adârparwâ
  • Mâr Jakob, the cut one , from the city of Bêt Lâpat (In the year 732 of Alexander, the second year of the Persian king Warahrân: ~ 421 AD)
  • Pêrôz from Bêt Lâpat
  • Jacob , secretary to the king in Seleucia and Ctesiphon
  • Mâr Johannan, Bishop of Karkâ de Bêt Slôk; Isaak bar Hôrmîzdgerd; Ardaschîr bar Arzanjâ; Abraham;
  • Aba I. , Catholicos
  • Mâr Gîwargîs (Georg), monk, confessor and crowned martyr
  • Simon from Bet-Titta

The events take place at the time of the kings Schâpûr , Jezdegerd I. and span a period of about 100 years. The main opponents are the mobeds , for example Môpêt Adârbôzi, Mihrschâpûr, Tahmjezdegerd. Exceptionally, a bishop dies peacefully: Bishop Schâpûrbarâz of Karkâ de Bêt Slôk. The author is Rabban Mâr Bâbai , the abbot on Mount Izalâ (p. 221). In the afterword he lists other saints' vites that he wrote 30 years ago: Abraham von Kaschkar , the founder of the monastery on the Izalâ; his successor Dâdischô 'from Bêt Dârâjê; the priest Johannan from Marga and Râmischô 'from Kashkar; the priest and abbot Daniel of Babylon; the martyr Gîwargîs; the Metropolitan Gregory of Nisibis

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  • Selected acts of Persian martyrs. With an appendix: East Syrian monk life Translated from Syriac. by Oskar Braun. (Library of the Church Fathers, 1st row, Volume 22) J. Kösel, Kempten - Munich 1915.

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Web links

  • Full text on the homepage of the University of Friborg.