Febronia of Nisibis - ܦܒܪܘܢܝܐ

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Febronia of Nisibis was a martyr and nun who lived in a convent near Nisibis. She was renown for her beauty, learning, asceticism, and bravery. She was martyred for refusing to marry a pagan statesman. She is venerated in the Syriac, Latin, and Greek traditions.

Names

  • ܦܒܪܘܢܝܐ1
  • Febronia of Nisibis
  • Febronia
  • FEBRONIA2
  • Fébronie1
  • Pēḇrōnīyā1
  • St Febronia11

Floruit

310

Sex

female2

Notes

There is an English translation of the life.7
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 147, 1923.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: 160.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Paul Peeters, "Le martyrologe de Rabban Sliba." Analecta Bollandiana vol. 27 (1908)., p: 155, 187.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Alfred Baudrillart et al., Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912)., vol: XVI, col: col.791-93.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 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: 20-21.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961)., vol: V, p: 508-509.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 13 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), p: 152-76.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Alexander Alexakis, "A Meeting of Hypatia of Alexandria with St. Febronia of Nisibis in the Life of Sts. David, Symeon and George of Lesbos." in Denis Sullivan, Elizabeth Fisher and Stratis Papaioannou (eds.), Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot, The Medieval Mediterranean 92 (Leiden: Brill, 2012)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 9 Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent, "Images de femmes dans l’hagiographie syriaque." in André Binggeli (ed.), L’hagiographie syriaque, Études syriaques 9 (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 2012)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 10 Joel Thomas Walker, "Against the Eternity of the Stars: Disputation and Christian Philosophy in Late Antique Iraq." in La Persia e Bisanzio. Atti del Convegno internazionale (Roma, 14-18 ottobre 2002), Atti dei Convegni Lincei 201 (Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei / Istituto italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, 2004)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 11 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013)., entry: St Febronia.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., “Febronia of Nisibis — ܦܒܪܘܢܝܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1240.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Febronia of Nisibis — ܦܒܪܘܢܝܐ .”, 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/1240.

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  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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