Talia - ܛܠܝܐ
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Talia was the
child of Sabellius and Shapira, who
had him at the age of 52. A revelation predicted that Talia, at age two,
would kill impious kings. This news reached the ears of the governor, and
they were all arrested. The child was tried and tortured multiple times, and
his parents were stoned. He was cut in many pieces, but still found intact.
He was finally killed after many ordeals, and his example converted people.
He was a martyr at age two. A shrine at Romaniya was built to
him.
Names
Death
421
Sex
male2
Notes
Talia was the child of Sabellius and Shapira, who had him at the age of 52. A revelation predicted that Talia, at age two, would kill impious kings. This news reached the ears of the governor, and they were all arrested. The child was tried and tortured multiple times, and his parents were stoned. He was cut in many pieces, but still found intact. He was finally killed after many ordeals, and his example converted people. He was a martyr at age two. A shrine at Romaniya was built to him.Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 976.
- 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 435.
- 3 Cornelia B. Horn, Children and Violence in Syriac Sources: The ‘Martyrdom of Mar Talya of Cyrrhus’ in the Light of Literary and Theological Implications, Parole de l’Orient 31 (2006): 309–26.
- 4 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Mar Talya of Cyrrhus