Giyorgis
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ጊዮርጊስ፡↗ normalized: Giyorgis↗ baptismal: ጊዮርጊስ፡ ሐዲስ፡↗ normalized: Giyorgis Ḥaddis↗
Period of Activity
He was an Egyptian martyr who was originally a Muslim and converted to Christianity marrying a Christian woman. Denounced as a convert to Christianity, he and his wife were imprisoned, tortured and exiled. He was again imprisoned by the governor of his locality but despite pressures and tortures he preserved his faith. Finally, he was killed and his remains were thrown into the sea. The urn with his remains was then sent to a local bishop and became a pilgrimage attraction. He is also represented as a martyr in the Ethiopian Church and his feast is commemorated on 19 Sane.
Death
0978
For a table of all relations from and to this record, please go to the Relations view. In the Relations boxes on the right of this page, you can also find all available relations grouped by name.
Names
- birth: ጊዮርጊስ፡ gez
- baptismal: ጊዮርጊስ፡ ሐዲስ፡ gez
Dates
Death: 978
Occupation
martyr
Faith
Coptic
Nationality
Egypt
Subject of
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
-
Raineri, O. 2005. ‘George the New’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 766b–767a.
Check for additional bibliography
Publication Statement
Encoding Description
Encoded according to the Beta maṣāḥǝft Guidelines. These Guidelines detail the TEI format ruled by the Beta maṣāḥǝft Schema. The present TEI file is enriched with an Xquery transformation taking advantage of the exist-db database instance where the data is stored and of the many external resources to which this data points to.
Definitions of prefixes used.
Select one of the keywords listed from the record to see related data
Use the tag BetMas:PRS4587Georget in your public hypothes.is annotations which refer to this entity.
Suggested Citation of this record
To cite a precise version, please, click on load permalinks and to the desired version (see documentation on permalinks), then import the metadata or copy the below, with the correct link.
Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻGiyorgisʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2017-05-09) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS4587Georget [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 9.5.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor