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.
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310
Sex
female2
Notes
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.There is an English translation of the life.7Status: draft
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 1471923.
- 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 160.
- 3 Paul Peeters, Le Martyrologe de Rabban Sliba, Analecta Bollandiana 27 (1908): 129–200, p: 155, 187.
- 4 Alfred Baudrillart et al., Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912), vol: XVIcol: col.791-93.
- 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.
- 6 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense,
1961), vol: Vp: 508-509.
- 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.
- 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 Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot, ed. Denis Sullivan, Elizabeth Fisher, and Stratis Papaioannou, The Medieval Mediterranean
92 (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 19–30.
- 9 Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent, Images de Femmes Dans l’hagiographie Syriaque, in L’hagiographie Syriaque, ed. André Binggeli, Études Syriaques 9 (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 2012), 201–24.
- 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), 518–35.
- 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