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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

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.
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    Works Cited

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    • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 8318151099812571273176019111930. 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 67 (2013): 291–322. 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