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In hagiography: Shamuni,
mother of the Seven Maccabean Martyrs was the biblical mother
of the seven sons whose death is told in the book of 2 Maccabees. Although
although unnamed in the biblical account, she was commemorated as a martyr
in the Syriac tradition under the name Shamuni or Mary. In the Syriac
account, she and her sons were martyred in Antioch in Syria.2
Names
- Shamuni, mother of the Seven Maccabean Martyrs
- ܡܪܝܡ2
- Mariam the Maccabean woman who was called Shamuni2
- Shamuni, mother of the Seven Maccabean Martyrs2
- Shamuni, mother of the Seven Maccabean Martyrs2
- Shmouni1
- ܫܡܘܢܝ2
Notes
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See Also
"Woman with seven sons" in WikipediaWorks Cited
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca., entry: 1743, 401, 476, 773, 774, 775, 777, 1207, 1267, 1415, 1516, 1704, 1994, 1588,
1589, 1661, 516, 517, 1823.
- 2 Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts now in the Possession of the Trustees
of the Woodbrooke Settlement, Selly Oak, Birmingham, Woodbrooke Catalogues 1-3 (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1933, 1936, 1939), vol: I, col: 1142-1143, entry: Mingana 600 D.
- 3 Witold Witakowski, "Mart(y) Shmuni, the Mother of the Maccabean Martyrs, in Syriac Tradition." in René Lavenant (ed.), VI Symposium Syriacum, 1992: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity, 30 August
– 2 September 1992, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 247 (Roma: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1994), p: 153-168.
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