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St. Maharsapor

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St. Maharsapor

Martyr

Maharsapor was a Persian Christian imprisoned for his faith. Butler remembers his endurance through repeated examinations, a long confinement and death from hunger.

Sources

The life below remains the existing Butler-based reading, with its edition citation. The profile preserves the feast date and source title already listed in the library. Additional personal dates and historical details are shown only when separately documented.

Source tradition: Eastern martyr acts published by Assemani
Butler cites Stephen Evodius Assemani’s collection and distinguishes the reported October death from the November entry.

Butler sourceAlban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 27, “St Maharsapor, Martyr,” p. 533.

Butler’s Lives of the Saints (1846)Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 27, “St Maharsapor, Martyr,” p. 533.

The reading

ⓘ Butler source

Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 27, “St Maharsapor, Martyr,” p. 533.

Maharsapor belonged to a noble Persian family. Butler remembers him above all for his Christian faith and the endurance with which he met persecution. He was arrested with Parses and Sabutaca, who were put to death after torture.

Maharsapor remained in prison for three years. Repeated examinations and suffering did not move him to abandon Christ. The judge finally condemned him to be shut in a pit and left to die from hunger.

The account records that his body was later found in the posture of prayer. Butler follows the eastern acts published by Stephen Evodius Assemani and gives October 421 as the time of his death, while printing the remembrance under November 27.

Historical note

An original Novena Regina reading adapted and summarized from the cited pre-1962 sources. This is not a transcription of Butler’s words.

Butler’s November 27 notice gives October 421 as the time of death. The circumstances of imprisonment and the discovery of the body follow the eastern martyr acts cited there.

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