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In hagiography: Amai was a Persian Martyr from the region of Adiabene. She was a daughter of the covenant who was killed with other daughters of the covenant, including Thecla.

Names

  • Amai
  • AMAÏ1

Sex

female1

Notes

In hagiography: Amai was a Persian Martyr from the region of Adiabene. She was a daughter of the covenant who was killed with other daughters of the covenant, including Thecla.There is an English translation of the life.11
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  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 38. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Stefanus Evodius Assemani, Acta Sanctorum Martyrum Orientalium et Occidentalium in Duas Partes Distributa, Adcedunt Acta S. Simeonis Stylitae, 2 vols. (Roma: Typis Josephi Collini, 1748), p: 123-27. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 François Lagrange, Les Actes Des Martyrs d’Orient, Traduits Pour La Première Fois En Francais Sur La Traduction Latine Des Manuscrits Syriaques de Étienne-Evode Assemani (Paris: Librairie Ecclésiastique et Classique d’Eugène Belin, 1852), p: 97-101. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Henri Leclercq, Les martyrs; recuiel de pièces sur les martyrs depuis les origines du christianisme jusqu’au XXe siècle;, 15 vols. (Paris: H. Oudin, 1902), vol: IIIp: 195-98. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Paulus Bedjan, Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: IIp: 308-13. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 1157. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Addai Scher, Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: Ip: 288-90. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 9 Paul Peeters, Le ‘Passionaire d’Adiabène,’ Analecta Bollandiana 43 (1925): 261–304, p: 274-75. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 10 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), vol: IXp: 483-84. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 11 Sebastian P. Brock and Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 13 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), p: 78-81. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Amai” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1126.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Amai.”, 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/1126.

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