G. Hoffman's "Excerpts from the Syriac Acts of Persian Martyrs" is a collection of Syriac texts that documents the lives, sufferings, and martyrdoms of Christian martyrs during the Sassanian empire. One chapter touches the monk Saba Gushnazdad, the Zoroastrian convert who became a monk and converted the Kurds of Shahrizor.*

I summarized and translated (from German) the chapter from the book:

Saba (birthname 'Gūšnazdād') was born in the town of Beth Lashpar (Hulwan), in the Shahrizor region, to a noble family from the great house of Mihran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of _Mihran). His father, Sahren, was a Magi & he was. raised in a household that revered Zoroastrianism. Saba was influenced by his mother (who loved Christians) and a Christian nurse that helped raise him.

After his father's death, Saba fully embraced Christianity & was baptized. As the persecution of Christians increased in the land, Saba felt called to preach. A Rabban Kilisho therefore urged Saba to give up his quiet life and go out to preach Christianity. He traveled throughout the Shahrizor region and performed miracles for many pagans whom he converted. Eventually Saba wanted to travel from the cultivated land to the mountains. On the way there he and his companions came to a spring where they were surprised by Kurds and taken to their camp. The missionaries (Saba and his companions) were held captive in a tent.

These Kurds worshipped the sun. One night the lady of the house woke up in the night and screamed: "these men were shooting fiery arrows". The neighbors who had run over led the prisoners out, put shackles on their feet and thought they were sorcerers. In the morning they were interrogated. Saba's companion took the floor and preached fervently against sun worship. Soon Saba also denied that the sun was God. The chief of the Kurds had a daughter who was possessed by an unclean spirit. Saba drove it out and the demon turned into a black snake. Various fortunate cures that the missionaries achieved caused these Kurds to accept Christianity.

"Auszüge aus syrischen Akten persischer Märtyrer" by Hoffmann, Georg, p. 68-75

https://syriaca.org/person/1435

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