Shemon Bar Sabbae
Patriarch of the Church of the East
Feast: 17 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Mar Shimun Bar Sabbae (Classical Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܫܡܥܘܢ ܒܪܨܒܥܐ, romanized: Shemʿon bar Ṣabbaʿe; died Good Friday, 345) was the Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon from Persia, the de facto head of the Church of the East, maintaining this position until his death. He was bishop in the Sasanian Empire during the persecutions of Shapur II against Christians and he was executed along with many of his followers, after refusing to renounce Christianity and convert to Zoroastrianism.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Butler's Lives of the Saints, 21 April; Santi e Beati — "Santi Simeone Bar Sabba'e, Usthazade e compagni | Martiri in Persia | 341-344 | festa 17 aprile"; Butler's contents for 21 April: "SS. Simeon Barsabae, bishop, and his Companions". A pre-schism Persian martyr kept in th
- Wikidata Q2166439 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Shemon bar Sabbae (CC BY-SA)
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