George the Priest - ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ
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George of Izla was a monk and a
convert from Zoroastrianism. His name was Mihrangusnap. He was noted for his
conversations with the Monophysites and opposition to Gabriel of Sinjar, a
convert from the Dyophysites to the Monophysites. Gabriel condemned George
to shah Kusro for leaving his Zoroastrianism, and thus George of Izla was
put to death.
Names
- ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ1
- George the Priest
- GEORGES D'IZLA2
- Georges le prêtre1
- George of Izla
- Gewargīs
- Gīwargīs1
- St George Mihrangushnasp12
Death
615
Sex
male2
Notes
George of Izla was a monk and a
convert from Zoroastrianism. His name was Mihrangusnap. He was noted for his
conversations with the Monophysites and opposition to Gabriel of Sinjar, a
convert from the Dyophysites to the Monophysites. Gabriel condemned George
to shah Kusro for leaving his Zoroastrianism, and thus George of Izla was
put to death.
Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 695.
- 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 173.
- 3 Mar Jab-Alaha,Histoire de Mar Jab-Alaha, Patriarche, et de Raban Sauma, ed. P. Bedjan, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1895), http://archive.org/details/histoiredemarjab00marj, p: 416-571.
- 4 Paul Peeters,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 323.
- 5 Jean Baptiste Chabot,Synodicon Orientale Ou Recueil de Synodes Nestoriens (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1902), p: 625-34.
- 6 Johann Georg Ernst Hoffmann,Auszüge Aus Syrischen Akten Persischer Märtyrer Übersetzt Und Durch Untersuchungen Zur Historischen Topographie Erläutert, Abhandlungen Für Die Kunde Des Morgenlandes 7.3 (Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1880), p: 91-115.
- 7 Īšō‘dnāḥ de al-Baṣra,Le livre de la chasteté, ed. Jean Baptiste Chabot (Rome, 1896), http://ebooks.library.ualberta.ca/local/lelivredelachast00ishduoft, entry: n° 57.
- 8 Addai Scher,Chronicle Of Seert, Patrologia Orientalis, 2015, http://archive.org/details/ScherChronicleOfSeertcombined1, vol: II, p: 217-19.
- 9 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: I, p: 1091-92.
- 10 Gerrit J. Reinink,Babai the Great’s Life of Georgeand the Propagation of Doctrine in the Late Sasanian Empire,” inPortraits of Spiritual Authority: Religious Power in Early Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient, ed. Jan Willem Drijvers and John W. Watt, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 137 (Leiden: Brill, 1999), 171–94, p: 171-194.
- 11 Joel Thomas Walker,A Saint and His Biographer in Late Antique Iraq: The History of St George of Izla(† 614) by Babai the Great,” inWriting ‘True Stories’: Historians and Hagiographers in the Late Antique and Medieval Near East, ed. Arietta Papaconstantinou, Muriel Debié, and Hugh N. Kennedy, Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 9 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), 31–41, p: 31-41. ( 2010)
- 12 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St George Mihrangushnasp.
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