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ʿAbda - ܥܒܕܐ

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ʿAbdā Alaha, priest, was tortured with ʿAbdishōʿ by Ardashir, brother of Sapor; ʿAbdā was arrested with seven friends and seven virgins. Barḥaḏbshabā and Samuel also were executed. Then ʿAbdishōʿ and ʿAbdā Alaha were executed. They were buried by Byzantine slaves in a neighboring village. He was martyred with 38 companions.

Names

  • ܥܒܕܐ1
  • ʿAbda
  • Abda1
  • ABDA ('AWDA), 'AWDİŜO'2
  • Abda ('Awda), 'Awdisho' de Kaskar
  • ʿAbdā
  • ʿAḇdā1

Death

376

Sex

male2

Event

The saint is venerated on 16 May by East Syrians. 2

Notes

ʿAbdā Alaha, priest, was tortured with ʿAbdishōʿ by Ardashir, brother of Sapor; ʿAbdā was arrested with seven friends and seven virgins. Barḥaḏbshabā and Samuel also were executed. Then ʿAbdishōʿ and ʿAbdā Alaha were executed. They were buried by Byzantine slaves in a neighboring village. He was martyred with 38 companions.
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 62.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 8.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Paulus Bedjan,Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: II, p: 325-48.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Paul Peeters,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 5.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Addai Scher,Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: I, p: 357-68.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Stefanus Evodius Assemani,Acta Sanctorum Martyrum Orientalium et Occidentalium in Duas Partes Distributa, Adcedunt Acta S. Simeonis Stylitae, 2 vols. (Roma: Typis Josephi Collini, 1748), p: 144-60.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 François Lagrange,Les Actes Des Martyrs d’Orient, Traduits Pour La Première Fois En Francais Sur La Traduction Latine Des Manuscrits Syriaques de Étienne-Evode Assemani (Paris: Librairie Ecclésiastique et Classique d’Eugène Belin, 1852), p: 109-93.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Henri Leclercq,Les martyrs; recuiel de pièces sur les martyrs depuis les origines du christianisme jusqu’au XXe siècle;, 15 vols. (Paris: H. Oudin, 1902), vol: III, p: 207-19.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 9 Johann Georg Ernst Hoffmann,Auszüge Aus Syrischen Akten Persischer Märtyrer Übersetzt Und Durch Untersuchungen Zur Historischen Topographie Erläutert, Abhandlungen Für Die Kunde Des Morgenlandes 7.3 (Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1880), p: 34-36.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 10 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII,Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961), vol: I, p: 42-43.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “ʿAbda — ܥܒܕܐ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1099.

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