Aretas (martyr)

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St. Aretas, leader of the Christian community of Najran in the early 6th century, was executed during the persecution of Christians by the Jewish king Dhu Nuwas in 523.[1][2]

The sixteenth-century Cardinal Cesare Baronio added St. Elesbaan to martyrology despite being a Monophysite heretics.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ R. Fulton Holtzclaw (1980). The Saints go marching in : a one volume hagiography of Africans, or descendants of Africans, who have been canonized by the church, including three of the early popes. Shaker Heights, OH: Keeble Press, p.120. OCLC 6081480. “Najran, in Yemen, was the scene, in 523, of a massacre of Ethiopians and other Christians by Jews and Arabs. A leader among the victims was the chief of the Bono Horith, St. Aretas (see: Elesbaan).” 
  2. ^ Vincent J. O'Malley, C.M. (2001). Saints of Africa. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. ISBN 087973373X. 
  3. ^ (1996) "SS Aretas and the Martyrs of Najran, and St Elsebann (523)", Alban Butler, p.169. ISBN 0814623867. 
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