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Yazdbozid - ܝܙܝܕܒܘܙܝܕ

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Yazdbozid or Theodute was a Zoroastrian Convert. He was brought to Christianity by the martyrdom of Gregory Pīrānguŝnasp. He was martyred in 553 under Chosroes Anosirwan. The original Syriac of his hagiography text was lost, but it was preserved in Georgian and Armenian.

Names

  • ܝܙܝܕܒܘܙܝܕ1
  • Yazdbozid
  • Mar Yazbozid4
  • St Yazdbozid6
  • Yazdbozid1
  • Yazdbozid5
  • YAZDBOZID (THÉODOTE)2
  • Yazdbozid (Theodotus)
  • Yazīdbōzīd
  • Yazīdbōzīd1

Floruit

553

Sex

male2

Notes

Yazdbozid or Theodute was a Zoroastrian Convert. He was brought to Christianity by the martyrdom of Gregory Pīrānguŝnasp. He was martyred in 553 under Chosroes Anosirwan. The original Syriac of his hagiography text was lost, but it was preserved in Georgian and Armenian.
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    Works Cited

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    • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 1270. 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: 463. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 3 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Notes d’hagiographie Syriaque: I. Deux Yazdbôzîd et Quatre Abraham. II. Peut-on Sauver Polychrone, Évêque de Babylone?, L’Orient Syrien 11 (1966): 133–45, p: 134-37. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 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 Yazbozid