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Tahmazgerd - ܛܗܡܙܓܪܕ

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Ṭahmazgerd was an executioner who was converted upon seeing the example of the martyrs of Kirkuk, including Shirin and her children. He was crucified upside down. There is a church of Mar Ṭahmasgard within Kirkuk.

Names

  • ܛܗܡܙܓܪܕ
  • Tahmazgerd
  • Mar Tahmazgard4
  • Ṭahmazgerd
  • TĀHMAZGERD1

Death

445

Sex

male1

Notes

Ṭahmazgerd was an executioner who was converted upon seeing the example of the martyrs of Kirkuk, including Shirin and her children. He was crucified upside down. There is a church of Mar Ṭahmasgard within Kirkuk.
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    • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 434. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 2 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [=  Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: IIp: 1128-29. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 3 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 10261653. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 4 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Mar Tahmazgard