Golinduch
{{Short description|Christian saint, convert from Zoroastrianism}}
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Maria
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| death_place = Mabbog (Hierapolis Bambyce)
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Golindouch, Golindukht, Golindokht, or Dolindokht (Greek Γολινδούχ, Γολιανδοὺχ) (died 591) was a noble Persian lady who converted to Christianity, took the name Maria, and became a saint and martyr.
She converted from Zoroastrianism to Christianity in the reign of Khosrau I.Michael G. Morony, Iraq after the Muslim Conquest, p. 299 She was persecuted and tortured under Khosrau I and Hormizd IV, and later she died in the Roman city of Mabbog (Hierapolis Bambyce) in 591.
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There is a Passion in Greek by Eustratios of Constantinople, which may be based on a lost version by Stephen of Hierapolis written in Syriac shortly after her death.Angelo di Berardino, Patrology, p. 107 The author of this document writes that he heard the facts from persons acquainted with the saint herself, in particular Saint Domitian, her bishop. In Greek, she is known as Αγία Γολινδούχ η Περσίδα που μετονομάστηκε Μαρία, meaning 'Saint Golindouch the Persian who was renamed Maria'. Her feast day is July 13.
There is also a medieval Passion in Georgian.{{cite book |last1=Rapp Jr |first1=Stephen H. |title=The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature |date=2014 |publisher=Ashgate |isbn=9781472425522 |pages=47, 318}}
Theophylact Simocatta discusses Golindouch at length.Thérèse Olajos, Les sources de Théophylacte Simocatta historien, p. 67ff
Evagrius Scholasticus mentions her briefly in his Ecclesiastical History, referring to Stephen of Hierapolis's Life of Golindouch and called her Golianduch (Γολιανδοὺχ).[https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2733.tlg001.1st1K-grc1:6.20/ Evagrius Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History, 6.20]
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- {{cite encyclopedia | article = GOLINDUCH | last = Brock | first = Sebastian | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/golinduch | editor-last = | editor-first = | editor-link = | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. XI, Fasc. 1 | pages = 95–96 | location = | publisher = | year = 2001 | isbn = }}
- L. Bardou, "Sainte Golindouch", Échos d'Orient, 4:[https://books.google.com/books?id=j2DYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA18 18] (October 1900-October 1901)
- P. Peeters, "Sainte Golindouch, martyre perse", Analecta Bollandiana 1944
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44173231 Imperial power and its subversion in Eustratius of Constantinople's "life and martyrdom of Golinduch" (c. 602)]
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Category:Converts to Christianity from Zoroastrianism
Category:6th-century Christian saints
Category:6th-century Christian martyrs
Category:Christians in the Sasanian Empire
Category:6th-century Iranian people
Category:Christian female saints of the Middle Ages
Category:Byzantine people of Iranian descent
Category:6th-century Byzantine people
Category:Eastern Orthodox saints
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