Habib - ܚܒܝܒ

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Habib was a deacon of the village of Telshaha near Edessa. He continued, despite the persecution that caused the death of Shmona and Guria, to travel from village to village encouraging the Christians. It was in the region of Zeugma on the Euphrates when he learned that Lysanius was looking for him. He was imprisoned and burnt to death, and his mother accompanied him to his death. He was entombed near Shmona and Guria.

Names

  • ܚܒܝܒ1
  • Habib
  • Ḥabīb
  • Ḥabīb1
  • Habib1
  • ḤABĪB2

Sex

male2

Death

3222

Notes

Habib was a deacon of the village of Telshaha near Edessa. He continued, despite the persecution that caused the death of Shmona and Guria, to travel from village to village encouraging the Christians. It was in the region of Zeugma on the Euphrates when he learned that Lysanius was looking for him. He was imprisoned and burnt to death, and his mother accompanied him to his death. He was entombed near Shmona and Guria.
The martyrology of Rabban Ṣaliba celebrates a Ḥabib, not identified, on the 11th of March.
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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 7, 8, 1396, 1559.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 182.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Paul Bedjan (ed.), Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Parisiis; Lipsiae: Harrasssowitz, 1890)., : I, 144-60.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 5 F. Crawford Burkitt (ed.), Euphemia and the Goth (London; Oxford: Published for the Text and translation Society by Williams and Norgate, 1913)., : 26*-43*, 112-28.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 6 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 367.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic recordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 7 Addai Scher, Kitāb ašhar šuhadā' al-mašriq (Vies des saints martyrs d'Orient (Mossoul, 1900)., : I, 102-12.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Paul Bedjan (ed.), Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Parisiis; Lipsiae: Harrasssowitz, 1890)., : I, 160-72. Note: Metrical homily by Jacob of Serug .Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 9 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 368.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic recordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 10 Jules Baudot, Léon Chaussin and Benedictines, Vies des saints et des bienheureux selon l'ordre du calendrier: avec l'historique des fêtes (Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ané, 1935)., : XI, 15 November, 472-75.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 11 J. B Segal, Edessa 'the blessed city', (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970)., : 85-86.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 12 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961-1970)., : I, 77-81.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Habib — ܚܒܝܒ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1258.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Habib — ܚܒܝܒ .”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson. Vol. 1 of Gateway to the Syriac Saints, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1258.

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