Qardag - ܩܪܕܓ
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Names
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.
Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 66, 67.
- 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: II, p: 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: I, p: 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: I, p: 205-206.
- 11 Gernot Wiessner,Christlicher Heiligenkult Im Umkreis Eines Sassanidischen Großkönigs,inFestgabe 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: I, p: 9-10.
- 14 Peter Bruns,Das Martyrium Des Hl. Mar Quardagh (BHO 555/56). Ein Christlich-Iranischer Ritter- Und Bekehrungsroman,inVolksglaube 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,inSennacherib 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,inVisions 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.
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