Simeon bar Sabbae

When did Simeon bar Sabbae die?

Simeon bar Sabbae is dated d. c. AD 341 (martyr under Shapur II) in the archive, which places Simeon bar Sabbae in the Nicene Age (AD 313–400). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

Which early sources mention Simeon bar Sabbae?

Simeon bar Sabbae is named in 2 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from The Church of the East and Sozomen. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Simeon bar Sabbae from?

The archive associates Simeon bar Sabbae with Seleucia-Ctesiphon.

Who were Simeon bar Sabbae’s contemporaries?

The archive links Simeon bar Sabbae to 9 other figures, including Usthazades, Papa bar Aggai, Shapur II and Tarbo. Each connection is drawn from a source that places them together, not from inference.

[First narrated ~100 years later by the Greek historians, drawing on the Syriac acts.] Symeon, bishop of Seleucia and Ctesiphon, the royal cities of Persia, was seized when the magi accused the Christians of friendship with the Roman enemy. He would neither worship the sun nor gather the double tax laid upon his people, and was beheaded — a great company of his clergy with him — at the season of the Lord's passion.