Name
Habbib, martyr of Edessa
Saint ID
S00090
Number in BH
O 367-368
Reported Death Not Before
310
Reported Death Not After
312
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Lesser clergy
| ID | Title | E00072 | The Syriac Chronicle of Edessa records that the church of the 'Confessors' [the Edessan martyrs, *Shmona and Gurya (S00081) and *Habbib (S00090)] was built in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) by bishop Abraham in 345/346. Written in Edessa, in second half of 6th c. | E00220 | The Syriac Story of Euphemia and the Goth celebrates the Edessan martyrs, *Shmona and Gurya (S00081), and *Habbib (S00090), who protect a woman, who is married to a Gothic soldier stationed in Edessa, taken to his homeland and mistreated there (despite the Goth's prior oath to the saints); but she is then miraculously transported, where eventually the Goth returns, only to be exposed and punished by death. Written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia), probably in the 6th c. | E00630 | Mosaics of the 5th/6th c. in the Rotunda of Thessalonike (south Balkans/Greece) include the figures of two unidentified martyrs. | E01211 | The Syriac Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite recounts how in 503, after their unsuccessful siege of the city of Edessa (northern Mesopotamia), the troops of the Persian king Kavadh I destroyed the martyria-churches of *Sergios (soldier and martyr of Rusafa, S00023) and of the 'Confessors' (*Shmona and Gurya, and *Habbib, martyrs of Edessa, S00090 and S00081) located outside the city. Written in Edessa, 506/515. | E01543 | The early 5th c. Syriac Martyrology commemorates on 2 September in Edessa the martyrdom by fire of *Habbib (martyr of Edessa, S00090), and in Nicomedia the martyrs Apītarqīn (otherwise unknown), *Koskonios, Melanippos and Zenon (martyrs of Asia/Nicomedia, S00964), and the sons of *Theodota (martyrs of Nicaea, S00257). Preserved in a manuscript written in Edessa (northern Mesopotamia) in 411. | E02530 | Jacob of Serugh's Syriac Homily (memrā) on *Habbib (martyr of Edessa, S00090) retells the story of the conversion and martyrdom of Habbib, while celebrating the martyr's steadfastness. Written in northern Mesopotamia in the late 5th/early 6th c. |
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