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Maʿin - ܡܥܝܢ

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Maʿin was a general of Shapur II. He became a Christian when he witnesses the martyrdom of Dōdō. He was baptized and arrested. He built 69 places of worship around Sinjar. He died at age 114 in a monastery that he built near Europos.

Names

  • ܡܥܝܢ1
  • Maʿin
  • MA'ĪN2
  • Maʾīn1
  • Maʿin
  • Ma‘în1

Death

424

Notes

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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 1068.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 281.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 783.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Johann Georg Ernst Hoffmann, Auszüge aus syrischen Akten persischer Märtyrer übersetzt und durch Untersuchungen zur historischen Topographie erläutert, Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 7.3 (Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1880), p: 28-33.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Jean-Maurice Fiey, "Ma‘īn, général de Sapor II, confesseur et évêque." Le Muséon vol. 84:3-4 (1971), p: 437-53.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Sebastian P. Brock, The History of the Holy Mar Ma‘in, With a Guide to the Persian Martyr Acts, Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac: Text and Translation 1 (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2008)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Maʿin — ܡܥܝܢ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1349.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Maʿin — ܡܥܝܢ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1349.

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