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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Baboy/Bāboy, katholicos and martyr in Persia under Peroz I

Saint ID

S01576

Number in BH

O 126

Reported Death Not Before

459

Reported Death Not After

484

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E04161The Syriac Martyrdom of *Bāboy (catholicos and martyr in Persia, S01576) recounts the martyrdom of Bāboy, catholicos of the Church of the East, in the city of Seleucia-Ctesiphon under Peroz I (r. 459-484).Written in Sasanian Persia during the late 5th c.