Theodoro wa Amasea

Theodoro wa Amasea (kwa Kigiriki: Θεόδωρος) alikuwa askari Mkristo ambaye, kwa ajili ya imani aliyoikiri kwa ushujaa wakati wa dhuluma, aliteswa, akafungwa na hatimaye akauawa kwa kuchomwa moto katika mji huo wa Uturuki wa leo mwanzoni mwa karne ya 4 (306 hivi).

Picha takatifu ya Mt. Theodoro.

Kaburi lake huko Venice.

Masalia ya Mt. Theodoro wa Amasea.

Gregori wa Nisa alimsifu kwa hotuba yake maarufu.

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Wakatoliki na Waorthodoksi kama mtakatifu mfiadini.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 9 Novemba au 17 Februari.

Tazama pia

• Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
• Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
• Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko

Marejeo

Vitabu

• The Book of Saints (a dictionary of servants of God canonised by the Catholic Church) compiled by the Benedictine monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate (6th edition, revised & rest, 1989).
• Butler's Lives of the Saints (originally compiled by the Revd Alban Butler 1756/59), Vol II (February) and XI (November), 1926/38 revised edition, 1995 new full edition.
• Delaney, John J: Dictionary of Saints (1982).
• Hippolyte Delehaye: Les Legendes Grecques des Saints Militaires (Paris 1909).
• Demus, Otto: The Church of San Marco in Venice (Washington 1960).
• Demus, Otto: The Mosaics of San Marco in Venice (4 volumes) 1 The Eleventh & Twelfth Centuries - Text (1984).
• Farmer, David: The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (4th edition, 1997).
• Grotowski, Piotr L.: Arms and armour of the warrior saints: tradition & innovation in Byzantine iconography (843-1261) (Leiden: Brill, 2010).
• The Oxford Companion to the Year (by Bonnie Blackburn & Leofranc Holford-Stevens) (Oxford 1999).
• Walter, Christopher: The Warrior Saints in Byzantine Art and Tradition (2003)

Makala

• B. Fourlas, "Eine frühbyzantinische Silberschale mit der Darstellung des heiligen Theodor", Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 55, 2008 [2011], pp. 483–528 (on the iconography before iconoclasm).

Viungo vya nje

Wikimedia Commons ina media kuhusu:

Theodoro wa Amasea

• Website of Orthodox Church
• Hagiography from the website of the Orthodox Church in America
• Saints of November 9: St Theodore Tiro
• Colonnade Statue in St Peter's Square

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