Protonice - [ Syriac Not Available ]
http://syriaca.org/person/1419
In hagiography:
Protonike was purportedly the wife of the emperor
Claudius. Her legend was interpolated into The Teaching of Addai
[http://syriaca.org/work/921]
. She
travelled to Jerusalem, converted to Christianity, and discovered the
true cross.
Names
- Protonice
- PROTONICE1
Floruit
50
Sex
female1
Notes
In hagiography:
Protonike was purportedly the wife of the emperor
Claudius. Her legend was interpolated into The Teaching of Addai
[http://syriaca.org/work/921]
. She
travelled to Jerusalem, converted to Christianity, and discovered the
true cross.
Status: incomplete
Is this record complete?
Works Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 355.
- 3 Jules Leroy,Les Manuscrits Syriaques à Peintures, Conservés Dans Les Bibliothèques d’Europe et d’Orient. Contribution à l’étude de l’iconographie Des Églises de Langue Syriaque, 2 vols., Bibliothèque Archéologique et Historique 77 (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1964), vol: I, p: 360-61.
- 5 Stefan Heid,Zwei Frühen Protonike- Und Kyriakoslegende,Analecta Bollandiana 109:1-2 (1991): 73–108, p: 73-108.
- 6 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Une Hymne Nestorienne Sur Les Saintes Femmes,Analecta Bollandiana 84 (1966): 77–110
- 7 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: II, p: 858.
- 8 Judah Benzion Segal,Edessa, ‘The Blessed City’ (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970), p: 69-72.
How to Cite This Entry
Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Protonice” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1419.
Show full citation information...
Bibliography:
Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Protonice.”, 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/1419.About this Entry
Entry Title: Protonice
Additional Credit:
- Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
- Data architecture and encoding by David A. Michelson
- Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
- Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
- Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
- Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne
Copyright and License for Reuse
Except otherwise noted, this page is © 2016.
Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
