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Susan - ܫܘܫܢ

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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.

Names

  • ܫܘܫܢ1
  • Susan
  • Bassus and Suzanne, with Stevin and Longinus
  • BASSUS et SUZANNE, avec ÉTIENNE et LONGIN2
  • Shushān
  • Šōšan1
  • Suzanne1

Floruit

379

Sex

female2

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.
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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 128, 1070, 2025, 1142.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: 83.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: IV, p: 471-99.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: 174-76.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 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)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Addai Scher,Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: I, p: 415-22.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Alfred Baudrillart et al.,Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912), vol: VI, col: col. 1283.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 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.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., “Susan — ܫܘܫܢ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1168.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Susan — ܫܘܫܢ .”, 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/1168.

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