Saint Barbasymas
Also known as
- Barba’shmin
- Barbascemin
- Barbasceminus
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.
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Online
- Katherine Rabenstein
- Den katolske kirke
- Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
MLA Citation
- “Saint Barbasymas“. CatholicSaints.Info. 12 January 2010. Web. 28 September 2016. <>