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In hagiography: Shirin and her two children were martyrs from Beth Zadoq. She was baking bread when she learned of 12000 martyrs under Yazdegerd II. She took herself and her children before the governor and confessed her Christian faith to him. She and her children were decapitated.

Names

  • Shirin
  • ŠĪRĪN1

Sex

female1

Death

4451

Notes

In hagiography: Shirin and her two children were martyrs from Beth Zadoq. She was baking bread when she learned of 12000 martyrs under Yazdegerd II. She took herself and her children before the governor and confessed her Christian faith to him. She and her children were decapitated.
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  • 1 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 424.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Paul Bedjan (ed.), Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Parisiis; Lipsiae: Harrasssowitz, 1890)., : II, 529.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)., : 705.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)., : II, 333.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Jean Maurice Fiey, "Vers la réhabilitation de l'histoire de Karka de Beth Slok." Analecta Bollandiana vol. 82 (1964)., : 211-16.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : II, 1057-58.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Shirin and her two children” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1483.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Shirin and her two children.”, 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/1483.

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Entry Title: Shirin and her two children

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  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Data architecture and encoding by David A. Michelson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Editing by James E. Walters
  • Entries adapted from the work of Jean Maurice Fiey
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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