Pethion - ܦܬܝܘܢ
http://syriaca.org/person/1410
In hagiography:
Pethion was a
Zoroastrian convert who, with his uncle the monk Yazdin, preached in
the region of the lower
Zab. His hagiography was connected to that of an
aristocratic father and daughter pair whom he helped to convert:Adorhormizd and his
daughter Anahid.
Pethion was martyred under Yazdegerd II.
Names
Death
449
Sex
male1
Notes
In hagiography: Pethion was a Zoroastrian convert who, with his uncle the monk Yazdin, preached in the region of the lower Zab. His hagiography was connected to that of an aristocratic father and daughter pair whom he helped to convert:Adorhormizd and his daughter Anahid. Pethion was martyred under Yazdegerd II.Status: incomplete
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- 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 344.
- 3 Paulus Bedjan, Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: IIp: 604-31.
- 4 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 923-26.
- 5 Joseph Corluy, Historia Sancti Mar Pethion Martyris Syriace et Latine Edidit Nunc Primum Ex Cod. Londinensi (Addit. Mss. 12174), Analecta Bollandiana 7 (1888): 5–44, p: 8-44.
- 6 Addai Scher, Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: IIp: 373-80.
- 7 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: 61-68.
- 8 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Mossoul Chrétienne. Essai Sur l’histoire, l’archéologie et l’état Actuel Des Monument Chrétiens de La Ville de Mossoul, Recherches Publiées Sous La Direction de l’lnstitut de Lettres Orientales de Beyrouth 12 (Beirut: Imprimerie catholique, 1959), p: 123-25.
- 9 Ms. Mingana syr. 214 , fol: fol. 131a-132a.
- 10 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 71.
- 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 Pethion
