Barbara - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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In hagiography:
Barbara was a pagan girl converted to Christianity and killed by her father
after tortures, perhaps during the Diocletian persecution.
Names
Floruit
313
Sex
female1
Notes
In hagiography: Barbara was a pagan girl converted to Christianity and killed by her father after tortures, perhaps during the Diocletian persecution.Status: incomplete
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Works Cited
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- 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 71.
- 2 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 1983168785.
- 3 Paulus Bedjan, Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: IIIp: 345-55.
- 4 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 132-34.
- 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: 77-84.
- 7 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: XIIsection: 4 decembrep: 119-20.
- 8 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St Barbara
