Guria, Mar

One of the Confessors martyred at {Edessa} no later than 309, prob. in the post-{Diocletian} persecutions. An aged man from the village of Sargi, he was beheaded with his younger companion {Shmona} on a hill N of Edessa. Feast day, 15 Oct.

Monastery. A monastery SW of {Seert}, rebuilt after being destroyed in 1818.

• F.C.Burkitt, Early Eastern Christianity, London, 1904, pp.22, 29-30, 36, 131-2.
• J.B.Segal, Edessa, Oxford, 1970, pp.83-4, 86.
• A.Voobus, History of the School of Nisibis, in CSCO 266 Subsidia 26, Louvain, 1965, p.294.
• W.Wright, 'An ancient Syriac martyrology', Journal of Sacred Literature, vol 8, 1866, p.431.
• J.M.Fiey, Nisibe, in CSCO 384 Subsidia 52, Louvain, 1977, pp.224-5.