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Onesima - ܐܢܣܝܡܐ

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Onesima was the daughter of a king and hermit in Egypt. She was mentioned in the hymns on the holy women and many liturgical pieces. She fled her royal house to become a hermit with 40 other nuns, and she feigned madness.

Names

  • ܐܢܣܝܡܐ1
  • Onesima
  • Onesimā
  • ONESIMA2
  • Onésima1
  • St Onesima4
  • ʾĀnēsīmā1

Sex

female2

Notes

Onesima was the daughter of a king and hermit in Egypt. She was mentioned in the hymns on the holy women and many liturgical pieces. She fled her royal house to become a hermit with 40 other nuns, and she feigned madness.
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    • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 139, 140, 141, 1686, 1772.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: 332.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 3 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [=  Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: II, p: 716.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 4 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St Onesima.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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    Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Onesima — ܐܢܣܝܡܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1398.

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    Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Onesima — ܐܢܣܝܡܐ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1398.

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    Entry Title: Onesima — ܐܢܣܝܡܐ

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