Barsauma "the Naked"
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Names
በርሶማ፡ Barsomā Barsauma "the Naked" Barsawmā al-ʿUryan
Period of Activity
Barsauma came from a high-ranking family. Around 1250 he is said to have worked as secretary to the sultana Shadshar ad-Durr, but gave up this activity and lived as an ascetic for about 20 years in an underground room of the Mercurios Church (Abū Sayfayn) in old Cairo, then more than fifteen years on the terrace this church, naked except for a loincloth, day and night. During the discrimination against Christians in 1293, who at that time had to wear turbans in special colors, he was expelled from there and imprisoned. Around 1300 he retired to the Dayr Šahrān monastery south of Cairo. He died there on August 28, 1317 and was soon venerated as a saint by the faithful.
Death
1317
Commemoration
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Names
- በርሶማ፡ gez
- normalized: Barsawmā al-ʿUryan ar
Dates
Death: 1317
Residence
Egypt
Faith
Christianity Coptic
Subject of
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Crum, W. E. 1907. ‘Barsaumâ The Naked’, Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archeology, 29 (1907), 135-149. 187-206.
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Swanson, M. N. 2013. ‘The Life and the Miracles of Barsawma al-ʿUryan’, in D. R. Thomas, ed., Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, V: 1350–1500 (Leiden: Brill, 2013), 114–118.
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Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻBarsauma "the Naked"ʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 2022-01-06) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS2467Barsoma [Accessed: 2024-06-01]
Revisions of the data
- Eugenia Sokolinski added content relations on 6.1.2022
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
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