Benjamin - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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In hagiography: Benjamin was a hermit and
priest from Dara; he was ordained
by Barsai of Edessa and
travelled to Mount Sinjar. He
converted Maʿin; both Benjamin
and Maʿin were martyred.
Names
- Benjamin
- BENJAMIN1
Sex
male1
Death
3711
Notes
In hagiography: Benjamin was a hermit and
priest from Dara; he was ordained
by Barsai of Edessa and
travelled to Mount Sinjar. He
converted Maʿin; both Benjamin
and Maʿin were martyred.
Status: incomplete
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Works Cited
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- 1 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 88.
- 3 W. Wright, Catalogue of Syriac manuscripts in the British museum acquired since the year 1838. (London, 1870)., : 1134-35, cod. DCCCCLX, fol. 388r-394v n° 67. Note: West Syrian manuscript, dated from 1197, in British Museum.
- 4 Georg Hoffmann, Auszüge aus syrischen Akten persischer Märtyrer (Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1880)., : 28-33. Note: German summary in .
- 5 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 783.
- 6 Jean Maurice Fiey, "Ma‘īn, général de Sapor II, confesseur et évêque." Le Muséon vol. 84 (1971)., : 437-53.
- 7 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 419-20.
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Benjamin.”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson. Vol. 1 of Gateway to the Syriac Saints, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1173.About this Entry
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