Habbib, Mar

Martyred deacon from Tell-She nr {Edessa}. He refused to sacrifice to Zeus, and was burnt alive under emp. Licinius in 309. He was buried in the same grave as the earlier Edessan martyrs {Shmona} and Guria at a spot which became the shrine of the Confessors.

• F.C.Burkitt, Early Eastern Christianity, London, 1904, pp.22, 29-30, 36.
• J.B.Segal, Edessa, Oxford, 1970, pp.83-4, 85-6.