Marutha of Maypherqat - ܡܪܘܬܐ ܕܡܝܦܪܩܛ
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“Bp., doctor, and co-convenor of the Synod of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (410).” 1
Names
- ܡܪܘܬܐ ܕܡܝܦܪܩܛ4
- Marutha of Maypherqat
- ܡܪܘܬܐ ܐܦܣܩܘܦܐ6, 7
- ܡܰܪܘܬܐ ܕܡܺܝܦܰܪܩܰܛ4
- ܡܵܪܘܼܬܵܐ ܐܲܦܸܣܩܘܿܦܵܐ5
- ماروثا الفارقي3
- Maruta of Mayperqat
- Marutha of Maiperqaṭ
- Marutha of Maipherqat7
- MĀRŪṮĀ DE MAYPERQAT8
- Bischof Màrût(h)ā von Maiperqaṭ12
- Marutha of Maypherqaṭ1
- Marutha of Miyapharqin2
Sex
male8
Floruit
4th/5th cent.1
Descriptions
In hagiography, Marutha of
Maypherqat, Bishop of Maypherqat is commemorated as a Doctor of the Church, and remembered as the grandson of a Persian Magian who converted to Christianity. His grandmother Mary built a church and a monastery where Marutha later studied. He became Bishop and built many churches and collected relics for the town of Maypherqat. He played an important role as representative of the Persian church before shah Yazdegerd and helped convene the Synod of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in 410.
Notes
“Bp., doctor, and co-convenor of the Synod of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (410).” 1
Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 S. P. Brock, "Marutha of Maypherqaṭ." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 273.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), entry: 22, pp: 240.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), pp: 207.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), pp: 233.
- 5 ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha, Ktābā d-metqre margānitā d-ʿal šrārā da-kresṭyānutā, 2nd ed. (Mosul: Mṭabbaʿtā ātoraytā d-ʿēdtā ʿattiqtā d-madnḥā, 1924), pp: 70.
- 6 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., pp: III:73.
- 7 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Marutha of Maipherqat.
- 8 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 303.
- 9 Jules Baudot, Léon Chaussin and Benedictines, Vies des saints et des bienheureux selon l'ordre du calendrier: avec
l'historique des fêtes (Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ané, 1935)., : 4, December, XII, 126-30.
- 11 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961-1970)., : VIII, 1305-1309.
- 12 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), pp: 52, 53-54.
- 13 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina, Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 15.
- 14 Rubens Duval, La littérature syriaque, Troisième Edition , Anciennes littératures chrétiennes, vol. 2; Bibliothèque de l'enseignement de l'histoire ecclésiastique (Paris: Librairie Victor Lecoffre, 1907), pp: 122, 123, 159.
- 15 J.S. Assemani, De scriptoribus Syris orthodoxis, Bibliotheca orientalis Clementino-Vaticana vol. 1 (Rome: Typis Sacræ Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719), pp: 174-195.
- 16 William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1894), pp: 44-46.
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Marutha of Maypherqat — ܡܪܘܬܐ ܕܡܝܦܪܩܛ .”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 1 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/25.About this Entry
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- Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
- German data entry by Samer Khader
- Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
- Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
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- GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
- Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
- Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
- Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
- Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
- Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
- Entries adapted from the work of Jean Maurice Fiey
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