Ustazhad na wenzake

Ustazhad na wenzake (walifariki nchini Uajemi, 344) walikuwa Wakristo elfu kadhaa, waliouawa kwa sababu ya imani yao katika dhuluma ya mfalme Sabor II http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92746A near-contemporary 5th century Christian work, the Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen, contains considerable detail on the Persian Christians martyred under Shapur II. Sozomen estimates the total number of Christians killed as follows:

The number of men and women whose names have been ascertained, and who were martyred at this period, has been computed to be upwards of sixteen thousand, while the multitude of martyrs whose names are unknown was so great that the Persians, the Syrians, and the inhabitants of Edessa, have failed in all their efforts to compute the number.

— Sozomen, in his Ecclesiastical History, Book II, Chapter XIV.

Ustazhad (pia: Chusdazat, Gothazat, Guhashtazad na Usthazan) alikuwa towashi wa ikulu aliyemlea mfalme mwenyewe. Kwanza alikuwa ameasi, lakini askofu mkuu Simeoni bar Sabas alimrudisha katika Ukristo hata akaufia.

Tangu kale wanaheshimiwa na Waorthodoksi, Waorthodoksi wa Mashariki na Wakatoliki kama watakatifu wafiadini.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 17 ApriliMartyrologium Romanum au tarehe nyingine.

Tazama pia
Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Tanbihi

Marejeo
Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1924.

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