Christina of Persia
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| Feast | 13 March (Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church) 14 March (Eastern Orthodoxy) |
Christina (
virgin martyr
.
Christina was from
Not long after her death,
hagiographical works he had written up to that point in his biography of George of Izla (martyred 615), he must have written Christina's biography after that date.[4][3] According to Babai, she was called Yazdoi "when she was pagan", but "in her new birth of adoption as a token of life, chose to be called Christina, a name that shall not pass".[1]
Christina is commemorated on 13 March in the
Ioane-Zosime, however, give it as 14 March.[7] The Synaxarion of Constantinople of the Eastern Orthodox Church also gives 14 March.[2]
References
- ^ a b Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., "Christine Yazdouy (text) — ܟܪܣܛܝܢܐ ܝܙܕܘܝ " in Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca Electronica (2015).
- ^ a b c d e Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Darwin Press, 2004), pp. 59–60.
- ^ a b c Gerrit J. Reinink, "Babai the Great's Life of George and the Propagation of Doctrine in the Late Sasanian Empire", Portraits of Spiritual Authority (Brill, 1999), p. 172n.
- ^ a b David Wilmshurst, The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East (East and West Publishing, 2011), p. 87.
- ^ Wilmshurst (2011), p. 494, puts her death around 600, but Fiey (2004) proposes she died much earlier (around 363).
- ISBN 88-209-7210-7)
- ^ Christina-Yazdoi, martyr in Persia, The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity (University of Oxford, 2017).
Further reading
- P. Bedjan, ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, IV (Paris, 1894), pp. 201–207. An edition of Babai's fragmentary biography.