Saint Barbasymas

Memorial

• 14 January

Profile

Bishop of Seleucia and Ctesiphon, Greece in 342. Arrested and tortured with sixteen priests in the persecutions of King Shapur II; the names of his companions have not come down to us. Barbasymas was offered a cup filled with gold coins if he would worship the Persian god; he declined. Martyred with the sixteen priests.

Died

• beheaded in 346 in Persia

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Barbasymas”. Saints.SQPN.com. 13 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-barbasymas/>