ʿAbda - ܥܒܕܐ
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ʿAbdā Alaha, priest, was tortured
with ʿAbdishōʿ by Ardashir,
brother of Sapor; ʿAbdā was arrested with seven friends and seven virgins. Barḥaḏbshabā
and Samuel also were executed. Then ʿAbdishōʿ and ʿAbdā Alaha were executed. They were
buried by Byzantine slaves in a neighboring village. He was martyred with 38
companions.
Names
Sex
male2
Death
3762
Event
The saint is venerated on 16 May in East Syrian church.
2
Attestation
ʿAbda is commemorated in ʿAbda, ʿAbdisho, and their Friends (text) [http://syriaca.org/work/283] .
2Notes
ʿAbdā Alaha, priest, was tortured
with ʿAbdishōʿ by Ardashir,
brother of Sapor; ʿAbdā was arrested with seven friends and seven virgins. Barḥaḏbshabā
and Samuel also were executed. Then ʿAbdishōʿ and ʿAbdā Alaha were executed. They were
buried by Byzantine slaves in a neighboring village. He was martyred with 38
companions.
Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 62.
- 2 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 8.
- 3 Paul Bedjan (ed.), Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Parisiis; Lipsiae: Harrasssowitz, 1890)., : II, 325-48.
- 4 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 5.
- 5 Addai Scher, Kitāb ašhar šuhadā' al-mašriq (Vies des saints martyrs d'Orient (Mossoul, 1900)., : I, 357-68.
- 6 Stefano Evodio Assemani, Acta Sanctorum Martyrum Orientalium et Occidentalium vol. 1 (Typis Josephi Collini, 1748)., : 144-60.
- 7 F. LaGrange, Actes Des Martyrs d'Orient (1852)., : 109-93.
- 8 Henri Leclercq, Les martyrs; recuiel de pièces sur les martyrs depuis les origines du christianisme jusqu'au XXe siècle; (Paris: H. Oudin, 1902)., : III, 207-19.
- 9 Georg Hoffmann, Auszüge aus syrischen Akten persischer Märtyrer (Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1880)., : 34-36.
- 10 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961-1970)., : I, 42-43.
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “ʿAbda — ܥܒܕܐ .”, 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/1099.About this Entry
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