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St. Simeon of Persia
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St. Simeon of Persia

died 344 · Seleucia-Ctesiphon · Feast April 17

Simeon Bar Sabbae was bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the capital of the Persian Empire. When the Shah Shapur II ordered Christians to pay a double tax and worship the sun, Simeon refused. He was executed on Good Friday 344 with about a hundred clergy, and many thousands of Persian Christians died in the persecution that followed.

  • Feast: April 17 (New Calendar)
  • Lived: died 344
  • Place: Seleucia-Ctesiphon
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