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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.
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    • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 695. 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: 173. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 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. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Archive.org Bibliographic record
    • 4 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 323. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 5 Jean Baptiste Chabot, Synodicon Orientale Ou Recueil de Synodes Nestoriens (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1902), p: 625-34. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 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. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 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. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 8 Addai Scher, Chronicle Of Seert, Patrologia Orientalis, 2015, http://archive.org/details/ScherChronicleOfSeertcombined1, vol: IIp: 217-19. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Archive.org Bibliographic record
    • 9 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [=  Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: Ip: 1091-92. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 10 Gerrit J. Reinink, Babai the Great’s Life of George and the Propagation of Doctrine in the Late Sasanian Empire,” in Portraits 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. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 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,” in Writing ‘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)