Christian feast day: Shemon Bar Sabbae

Shemon bar Sabbae

Patriarch of the Church of the East

Mar Shimun Bar Sabbae was the Syriac Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, from Persia, the de facto head of the Church of the East, until his death. He was bishop during the persecutions of King Shapur II of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, and was executed along with many of his…