Name
Sharbel and Babai, martyrs of Edessa
Saint ID
S01126
Number in BH
O 1049
Reported Death Not Before
104
Reported Death Not After
104
GenderMale
Male
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs
| ID | Title | E01658 | Greek inscriptions (on a lintel and on a reliquary) from the church in Kfeir Dart'Azze in the Limestone Massif (north Syria, between Antioch on the Orontes and ancient Beroia/Aleppo), mentioning a saint *Arbelos (probably a local martyr, S00870). After mid-5th c., or later. | E01890 | The Acts of *Sharbel (martyr in Edessa, S01126) are written in Syriac in Edessa during the 5th c., describing the martyrdom of Sharbel and his sister *Babai (S01126) under Trajan, with an account of the recovery of their bodies, but with no reference to miraculous events. | E01976 | Jacob of Serugh's Syriac Homily (memrā) on *Sharbel (martyr of Edessa, S01126) retells the story of the conversion and martyrdom of Sharbel and his sister *Babai (S01126), while celebrating the martyrs' steadfastness. Written in northern Mesopotamia in the late 5th/early 6th c. | E03343 | The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 5 August *Eusignios (soldier and martyr of Antioch, S01369) and possibly Tutael, also known as *Sharbel (martyr in Edessa, S01126). | E03823 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 5 August *Moses (Old Testament prophet and lawgiver, S00241), possibly Tutael, also known as *Sharbel (martyr in Edessa, S01126), *Eusignios (soldier and martyr of Antioch, S01369), and *John/Ioannes the Soldier (confessor under the emperor Julian, S00925). |
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