Sharbel - ܫܪܒܝܠ

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Sharbel and his sister Babai were martyrs of Edessa. Sharbel had been a pagan priest, but he converted to Christianity. He was martyred under Trajan. Sharbel and Babai were contemporary with the priest Barsamya.

Names

  • ܫܪܒܝܠ1
  • Sharbel
  • Šarbēl1
  • ŠARBIL2
  • Sharbel1
  • Sharbēl
  • Sharbil
  • St Sharbil13

Death

104

Sex

male2

Events

The saint is venerated on 29 January (BHO). 2 The saint is venerated on 5 September (BHO). 2

Notes

Sharbel and his sister Babai were martyrs of Edessa. Sharbel had been a pagan priest, but he converted to Christianity. He was martyred under Trajan. Sharbel and Babai were contemporary with the priest Barsamya.
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    Works Cited

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    • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 4720779. 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: 390. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 3 Paulus Bedjan, Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: Ip: 95-119. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 4 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 1049-51. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 5 Addai Scher, Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: Ip: 42-68. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 6 William Cureton, Ancient Syriac Documents Relative to the Earliest Establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the Neighbouring Countries, from the Year after Our Lord’s Ascension to the Beginning of the Fourth Century (London / Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1864), p: 41-62. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 7 Rubens Duval, Les Actes de Scharbil et Les Actes de Barsamya, Journal Asiatique VIII, 14 (1889): 40–58, p: 40-58. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 8 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961), vol: XIp: 651-53. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 9 Joseph-Marie Sauget, Un Fragment de Calendrier Maronite Dans Le Manuscrit Vatican Syriaque 414, Orientalia NS 47:2 (1978): 220–37, p: 225-28. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 10 Jürgen Tubach, Die Personennamen in Den Akten Der Edessenischen Märtyrer Šarbēl Und Bar Sāmyā, in Christsein in Der Islamischen Welt: Festschrift Für Martin Tamcke Zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Sidney Harrison Griffith and Sven Grebenstein (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015), 27–38. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 11 Lutz Greisiger, Šarbēl, Baḇai, Märtyrer in Edessa, in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Band 26. Ergänzungen 13, ed. Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz and Traugott Bautz (Nordhausen: Bautz, 2006), 1311–15. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 12 Lutz Greisiger, Šarbēl, Göttin von Arbela – Šarbēl, Alias Tūṯāēl, Märtyrer in Edessa: Religions- Und Überlieferungsgeschichtliche Probleme, in Edessa in Hellenistisch-Römischer Zeit: Religion, Kultur Und Politik Zwischen Ost Und West. Beiträge Des Internationalen Edessa-Symposiums in Halle an Der Saale, 14.-17. Juli 2005, ed. Lutz Greisiger, Claudia Rammelt, and Jürgen Tubach, Beiruter Texte Und Studien 116 (Beirut: Orient-Institut / Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2009), 75–96. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 13 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St Sharbil