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Martyr

Yazdbozid

A Persian convert martyred around 553, commemorated in the old Georgian calendar of Ioane Zosime.

Reposed
5536th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Yazdbozid was a Persian convert to Christianity and a martyr, put to death around 553, commemorated in the old Georgian calendar of Ioane Zosime.

The sources available are few: they preserve the name, the country of origin, the approximate year of the martyrdom and the place in the Georgian calendar. No account of his conversion or of his death survives.