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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

Death

445

Sex

female1

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, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 424.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: II, p: 529.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: 705.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: II, p: 333.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Vers La Réhabilitation de l’Histoire de Karka d’Béṯ Slōḫ,”Analecta Bollandiana 82 (1964): 189–222, p: 211-16.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [=  Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: II, p: 1057-58.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Shirin and her two children.”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1483.

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