Sergius - ܣܪܓܝܣ
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Names
- ܣܪܓܝܣ1
- Sergius
- ܡܪܝ ܣܪܓܝܣ16
- ܣܐܪܓܝܣ1
- Sargis
- Sargīs1
- Serge1
- SERGE ET BACCHUS2
- Sergius and Bacchus
- Sergius (saint)
- St Sergius15
Floruit
275-310
Floruit
early 4th century
Event
The saint is venerated on 7 October.
2
Notes
Sergius was one of
the most popular saints of the Orient. He was a Roman soldier martyred
shortly after his friend Bacchus since he refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods.
Sergius was decapitated at Resafa on the Euphrates.
“Sergius, often venerated together with Bacchus, was one of the most popular saints in Syria. According to legend, he was a Roman officer who suffered martyrdom in Rusafa close to the Euphrates in the early 4th century. From the 5th century onwards, his shrine at Rusafa-Sergiopolis became a major cult centre for the Arab tribes, as recorded for instance in Joh. Eph., EH 6.4.”17
Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 83, 510, 998, 1257, 1273, 1760, 1911, 1930, 181.
- 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 403.
- 3 Jules Baudot, Léon Chaussin, and Benedictines,Vies des saints et des bienheureux selon l’ordre du calendrier: avec l’historique des fêtes (Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ané, 1935), vol: X, section: 7 October, p: 101-107.
- 4 Elizabeth Key Fowden,The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran, The Transformation of Classical Heritage 28 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999)
- 5 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII,Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961), vol: XI, p: 876-82.
- 6 Mat Immerzeel,Holy Horsemen and Crusader Banners: Equestrian Saints in Wall Paintings in Lebanon and Syria,Eastern Christian Art 1 (2004): 29–60
- 7 Elizabeth Key Fowden,The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran, The Transformation of Classical Heritage 28 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999)
- 8 Dorothée Sack,St Sergios in Resafa: Worshipped by Christians and Muslims Alike,inReligious Identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed: Continuity and Change, ed. Michael Blömer, Achim Lichtenberger, and Rubina Raja, Contextualizing the Sacred 4 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), 271–82
- 9 Andrew Palmer,Jacob of Serugh’s Metrical Homily on Sargis and Bakhos,Parole de l’Orient 41 (2015): 347–66
- 10 Dianne van de Zande,The Cult of Saint Sergius in Its Socio-Political Context,Eastern Christian Art 1 (2004): 141–52
- 11 Tomasz Waliszewski et al.,The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Kaftūn (Northern Lebanon) and Its Wall Paintings: Preliminary Report 2009-2010,Dumbarton Oaks Papers 67 (2013): 291–322
- 12 Amir Harrak,Commemorating Church History in the Ottoman Era: Monumental Architecture and Art,inThe Christian Heritage of Iraq: Collected Papers from the Christianity of Iraq I-V Seminar Days, ed. Erica C. D. Hunter, Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 13 (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2009), 165–86
- 13 Irfan Shahîd,Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, 2 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1995)
- 14 Alexander Markus Schilling,Die Anbetung Der Magier Und Die Taufe Der Sāsāniden: Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Iranischen Christentums in Der Spätantike, CSCO 621, Subs. 120 (Louvain: Peeters, 2008)
- 15 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St Sergius.
- 16 Ernest Walter Brooks,Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 285; 286, chapter: 3.6.4.
- 17 Oliver Nicholson,The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), p: 1361.
- 18 Ernest Walter Brooks,Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 285; 286.
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