Maruthas of Martyropolis«Marutha / Μαρουθάς της Μαρτυρόπολης»

(c. 350–c. 420)
Bishop (of Maypherkat)
Place of birth:Province of Coele Syria (Diocese of the East) (Roman Empire)††
Place of death:Province of Mesopotamia (Diocese of the East) (Roman Empire)†††
Place(s) associated with:Persia††††; Kingdom of the Iranians - Sasanian Empire - Sassanid Empire (Neo-Persian Empire)†††††
Feastday
4 December
Patronage
Patron of:Iran††††††; Persia
ميا فارقين / Սիլվան / Μαρτυρούπολις / Silvan
††Provincia Coele Syria (Dioecēsis Orientis) (Imperium Romanum) / Επαρχία Κοίλης Συρίας (Διοίκησις Ἑῴα) (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [c. 293–c. 415]
†††Provincia Mesopotamia (Dioecēsis Orientis) (Imperium Romanum) / Επαρχία Μεσοποταμίας (Διοίκησις Ἑῴα) (Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων) [c. 293–637]
††††Xšāça
†††††ایران‌شهر / Ērānšahr / Ερανσάρ / Αυτοκρατορία των Σασσανιδών / Regnum Sassanidarum / regnum Persicum novum [224–651]
††††††Ērān / ایران

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia