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
Floruit
310
Sex
female2
Notes
There is an English
translation of the life.7
Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 147, 1923.
- 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 vol. 27 (1908)., p: 155, 187.
- 4 Alfred Baudrillart et al., Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912)., vol: XVI, col: 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 (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961)., vol: V, p: 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 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
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