Bassus - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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In hagiography:
Bassus and his twin sister Suzanna were twin children of a Zoroastrian governor. They
were informed about Christianity by a Christian slave. They were baptized by
an ascetic named Longinus. They were killed by their father. A martyr named
Stephen is
also commemorated with them. At least one monastery commemorating Mar
Bassus was founded near Apamea.
Names
Floruit
379
Sex
male1
Notes
In hagiography:
Bassus and his twin sister Suzanna were twin children of a Zoroastrian governor. They
were informed about Christianity by a Christian slave. They were baptized by
an ascetic named Longinus. They were killed by their father. A martyr named
Stephen is
also commemorated with them. At least one monastery commemorating Mar
Bassus was founded near Apamea.
Status: incomplete
Is this record complete?
Works Cited
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- 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 83.
- 2 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 1776, 129, 130, 128, 1070, 1142, 2025.
- 3 Paulus Bedjan,Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: IV, p: 471-99.
- 4 Paul Peeters,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 174-76.
- 5 Jean Baptiste Chabot,La Légende de Mar Bassus, Martyr Persan, Suivie de l’histoire de La Fondation de Son Couvent à Apamée, d’après Un Manuscrit de La Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1893)
- 6 Addai Scher,Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: I, p: 415-22.
- 7 Alfred Baudrillart et al.,Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912), vol: VI, col: col. 1283.
- 8 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII,Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961), vol: II, p: 968-69.
- 9 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Nisibe, Métropole Syriaque Orientale et Ses Suffragants Des Origines à Nos Jours, CSCO 388, Subs. 54 (Louvain: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 1977), p: 167-70.
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