Artist: Unknown
The Basics: Birth date and place unknown; died 345 in what is now Iran; canonized pre-congregation; feast day, April 22. Martyr.
The Story: Tarbula ’s brother, the bishop Symeon, already had been executed by King Shapur II. Symeon’s martyrdom had been particularly cruel; on the day he was beheaded, he was the last of one hundred Christians to be killed.
But Tarbula’s end would be even more gruesome. It came when Shapur’s wife fell ill, and religious officials who had Shapur’s ear blamed Tarbula, calling her a sorceress. After her arrest, along with a sister and a servant, one of the priests offered to save the group if Tarbula would be intimate with him. Tarbula refused… and was sawed in half.
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