Shirin and her two children
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Shirin; ŠĪRĪN
identifier: http://syriaca.org/person/1483
identifier: 424
sex: female
death: 445
state: Martyr
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.
Saints Syriaques ŠĪRĪN 424
AMS II, 529
BHO 705
Šuhadā' II, 333
Fiey Réhabilitation 211-16
J. Habbi BSO II, 1057-58