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Bacchus - ܒܟܘܣ

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Bākōs (Bacchus) was one of the most popular saints of the Orient. He was a Roman soldier who was martyred shortly before his friend Bacchus since he refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods.

Names

  • ܒܟܘܣ1
  • Bacchus
  • Bacchus1
  • BACCHUS2
  • Bacchus (comrade of Sergius)
  • Bacchus (Serge de Résapha)1
  • Bākōs
  • Bākōs1
  • St Bacchus4

Floruit

275-310

Sex

male2

Notes

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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 83, 181, 510, 998, 1257, 1273, 1760, 1911, 1930.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: 68.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Tomasz Waliszewski et al., "The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Kaftūn (Northern Lebanon) and its Wall Paintings: Preliminary Report 2009-2010." Dumbarton Oaks Papers vol. 67 (2013).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013)., entry: St Bacchus.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Bacchus — ܒܟܘܣ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1153.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Bacchus — ܒܟܘܣ .”, 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/1153.

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Entry Title: Bacchus — ܒܟܘܣ

Additional Credit:

  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Data architecture and encoding by David A. Michelson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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