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

Status: draft  Is this record complete?

Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 66, 67.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: 356.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Hermann Feige, Die Geschichte des Mâr ‘Abhdîšô‘ und seines Jüngers Mâr Qardagh (Kiel: C.F. Haeseler, 1890).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 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 vol. 9 (1890)., p: 5-106.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Paulus Bedjan, Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890-1897), vol: II, p: 442-507.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 555-56.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Addai Scher, Kitāb sīrat ’ašhar šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-qiddisīn (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900-1906)., vol: I, p: 311-45.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Paul Peeters, "Le “Passionaire d’Adiabène”." Analecta Bollandiana vol. 43 (1925)., p: 298-302.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 9 Jean-Maurice Fiey, "Proto-histoire chrétienne du Hakkâri turc." L’Orient Syrien vol. 9 (1964)., p: 459-62.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 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, Recherches publiées sous la direction de l’lnstitut de lettres orientales de Beyrouth 22, 34, 42 (Beyrouth: Imprimerie catholique, 1965, 1968), vol: I, p: 205-206.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 11 Gernot Wiessner, "Christlicher Heiligenkult im Umkreis eines sassanidischen Großkönigs." in Wilhelm Eilers (ed.), Festgabe deutscher Iranisten zur 2500 Jahrfeier Irans (Stuttgart: Höchwacht Druck, 1971).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 12 Wilhelm Eilers, Festgabe deutscher Iranisten zur 2500 Jahrfeier Irans (Stuttgart: Hochwacht Druck, 1971)., p: 141-55.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 13 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., vol: I, p: 9-10.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 14 Peter Bruns, "Das Martyrium des hl. Mar Quardagh (BHO 555/56). Ein christlich-iranischer Ritter- und Bekehrungsroman." in Heike Grieser and Andreas Merkt (eds.), Volksglaube im antiken Christentum (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 15 Tawny L. Holm, "Memories of Sennacherib in Aramaic Tradition." in Isaac Kalimi and Seth Richardson (eds.), Sennacherib at the Gates of Jerusalem: Story, History and Historiography, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 71 (Leiden: Brill, 2014)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 16 Richard E. Payne, "Avoiding Ethnicity: Uses of the Ancient Past in Late Sasanian Northern Mesopotamia." in Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner and Richard E. Payne (eds.), Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World: The West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, 300-1100 (Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2012).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 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)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 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.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., “Qardag — ܩܪܕܓ .”, 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/1420.

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