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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

Sex

male2

Death

1042

Event

The saint is venerated on Jan. 29, Sep. 5 (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, entry: 4, 720, 779.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 390.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Paul Bedjan (ed.), Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Parisiis; Lipsiae: Harrasssowitz, 1890)., : I, 95-119.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 4 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 1049-51.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic recordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 5 Addai Scher, Kitāb ašhar šuhadā' al-mašriq (Vies des saints martyrs d'Orient (Mossoul, 1900)., : I, 42-68.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 William Cureton, Ancient Syriac documents relative to the earliest establishment of ... (Williams and Norgate, 1864)., : 41-62.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 7 R. Duval, "Les Actes de Scharbil et les Actes de Barsamya." Journal Asiatique vol. 14 (1889, Huitième Série)., : 40-58.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961-1970)., : XI, 651-53.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 9 J.M. Sauget, "Un fragment de calendrier maronite dans le ms. vat. syr. 414." Orientalia vol. 47 (1978)., : 225-28.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 10 Jürgen Tubach, "Die Personennamen in den Akten der edessenischen Märtyrer Šarbēl und Bar Sāmyā." in Sidney Harrison Griffith and Sven Grebenstein (eds.), Christsein in der islamischen welt festschrift fur martin tamcke zum 60. (S.l.: Eisenbrauns, 2015).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 11 Lutz Greisiger, Šarbēl, Baḇai, Märtyrer in Edessa Band 26. Ergänzungen 13 (Nordhausen: Bautz, 2006).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 12 Greisiger Lutz, "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, Beiruter Texte und Studien, vol. 116 (Beirut: Orient-Institut / Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2009)Link to Syriaca.org web application 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 14 B. P. Pratten, "Memoirs of Edessa and Other Ancient Syriac Documents." in Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (eds.), The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, the Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages, Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325, vol. 8 (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1994)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 15 Georg Mösinger (ed.), Acta S.S. martyrum Edessenorum Sarbelii, Barsimaei, Guriae, Samonae et Abibi vol. 1: Acta S. S. martyrum Sarbelii et Barsimaei (Oeniponti: Wagner, 1874).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Worldcat Bibliographic record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Sharbel — ܫܪܒܝܠ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1454.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Sharbel — ܫܪܒܝܠ .”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson. Vol. 1 of Gateway to the Syriac Saints, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1454.

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