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Sophia - ܣܘܦܝܐ

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Sophia or "wisdom" with her three daughters, Faith, Hope, and Charity, were martyred in Rome under Hadrian. Sophia was invoked as a saint to fight malaria.

Names

  • ܣܘܦܝܐ1
  • Sophia
  • Sophia (Wisdom)
  • Sophie1
  • SOPHIE2
  • Sopiya
  • Sōpyā1

Floruit

138

Sex

female2

Notes

Sophia or "wisdom" with her three daughters, Faith, Hope, and Charity, were martyred in Rome under Hadrian. Sophia was invoked as a saint to fight malaria.
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 15015116881924. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 430. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 1082-85. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Paulus Bedjan, Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: VIp: 32-52. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Agnes Smith Lewis, Select Narratives of Holy Women from the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest as Written above the Old Syriac Gospels by John the Stylite, of Beth-Mari-Qanūn in A.D. 778, 2 vols., Studia Sinaitica 9-10 (London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1900), p: ܪܝܚ-ܪܡܕ168-84. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Jean-Maurice Fiey, De Quelques Saints Vénérés Au Liban, Proche-Orient Chrétien 28 (1978): 18–43, p: 38-39. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Michel van Esbroeck, Le Saint Comme Symbole, in The Byzantine Saint, ed. Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies and Sergei Hackel (Chester, 1981), 128–40, p: 128-40. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961), vol: XIp: 1277-80. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Sophia — ܣܘܦܝܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1489.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Sophia — ܣܘܦܝܐ .”, 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/1489.

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Entry Title: Sophia — ܣܘܦܝܐ

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  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
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  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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