Saint
Barsimaeus of Edessa
Bishop of Edessa
Bishop of Edessa in Syria from the early Christian centuries; the sources preserve few details.
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- Era
- 2nd century
- Place
- Şanlıurfa
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Barsimaeus of Edessa is regarded as bishop of Edessa in Syria and a martyr under Trajan, said to have died in 114, with his feast on 30 January in the Roman calendar and 29 January in the Eastern one. The Roman Martyrology says he was too zealous in converting pagans, among them the priest Sarbil and his sister Bebaia. Scholars, however, think the story was moved back a century and a half and really concerns the persecution of Decius, around 250, in which the bishop was beaten with rods, released and went on governing his church. He probably succeeded Palut.