HE was the third bishop of Edessa from St. Thaddaeus, one of the
seventy-two disciples. St. Barsaumas was crowned with martyrdom, being
condemned to die for his zeal in converting great multitudes to the
faith, by the president Lysias, in the reign of Trajan, when that
prince, having passed the Euphrates, made the conquest of Mesopotamia in
114. St. Barsimaeus is mentioned on the 30th of January in the Roman
Martyrology, and in the Greek Maenology.
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