Qardag - ܩܪܕܓ

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Qardag was a military saint and a martyr. He was a convert from a high-born Zoroastrian family. His cult was localized north of Arbela. His teacher was Mar Abdisho.

Names

ܩܪܕܓ1
Qardag
Mar Qardag18
Qardāg1
Qardag1
Qardāgh
QARDĀĠ2

Death

359

Sex

male2

Event

The saint is venerated on 1 April (1 Nisan) by Syr. 2

Notes

Qardag was a military saint and a martyr. He was a convert from a high-born Zoroastrian family. His cult was localized north of Arbela. His teacher was Mar Abdisho.

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Works Cited

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1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 6667.
2 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 356.
3 Hermann Feige, Die Geschichte Des Mâr ‘Abhdîšô‘ Und Seines Jüngers Mâr Qardagh (Kiel: C.F. Haeseler, 1890).
4 Joannes Baptista Abbeloos, Acta Mar Kardaghi Assyriae Praefecti Qui Sub Sapore II Martyr Occubuit: Syriace Juxta Manuscriptum Amidense Una Cum Versione Latina, Analecta Bollandiana 9 (1890): 5–106, p: 5-106.
5 Paulus Bedjan, Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: IIp: 442-507.
6 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 555-56.
7 Addai Scher, Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: Ip: 311-45.
8 Paul Peeters, Le ‘Passionaire d’Adiabène,’ Analecta Bollandiana 43 (1925): 261–304, p: 298-302.
9 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Proto-Histoire Chrétienne Du Hakkâri Turc, L’Orient Syrien 9 (1964): 443–72, p: 459-62.
10 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Assyrie Chrétienne. Contribution à l’étude de l’histoire et de La Géographie Ecclésiastiques et Monastiques Du Nord de I’Iraq, 3 vols., Recherches Publiées Sous La Direction de l’lnstitut de Lettres Orientales de Beyrouth 22, 34, 42 (Beyrouth: Imprimerie catholique, 1965), vol: Ip: 205-206.
11 Gernot Wiessner, Christlicher Heiligenkult Im Umkreis Eines Sassanidischen Großkönigs, in Festgabe Deutscher Iranisten Zur 2500 Jahrfeier Irans, ed. Wilhelm Eilers (Stuttgart: Höchwacht Druck, 1971), 141–55.
12 Wilhelm Eilers, Festgabe deutscher Iranisten zur 2500 Jahrfeier Irans (Stuttgart: Hochwacht Druck, 1971), p: 141-55.
13 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: Ip: 9-10.
14 Peter Bruns, Das Martyrium Des Hl. Mar Quardagh (BHO 555/56). Ein Christlich-Iranischer Ritter- Und Bekehrungsroman, in Volksglaube Im Antiken Christentum, ed. Heike Grieser and Andreas Merkt (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009), 187–202.
15 Tawny L. Holm, Memories of Sennacherib in Aramaic Tradition, in Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem: Story, History and Historiography, ed. Isaac Kalimi and Seth Richardson, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 71 (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 295–323.
16 Richard E. Payne, Avoiding Ethnicity: Uses of the Ancient Past in Late Sasanian Northern Mesopotamia, in Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World: The West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, 300-1100, ed. Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner, and Richard E. Payne (Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2012), 205–21.
17 Joel Thomas Walker, The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq, The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 40 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).
18 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Mar Qardag