Martyr
Barhadbeshabba
Deacon of Arbela
A deacon of Arbela, put to death for Christ in 355 in the persecution of the Persian king Shapur II.
Life
Barhadbeshabba was a deacon of Arbela in the Persian Empire and received the crown of martyrdom in 355, in the time of King Shapur II. He is venerated as a holy martyr and hieromartyr.
According to the sources, he was arrested by the governor of Arbela, Sapor Tamaspor, and put on the rack. Tradition says that the authorities ordered Aghaeus, an apostate Christian nobleman, to kill him with a sword; he was beheaded on 20 July 355. Two other Christians of the same name were killed with Abda and Abdisho in 376. The synaxaria commemorate him on 20 or 21 July.
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