Feastday: July 20
Death: 355
A Persian martyr, serving as a deacon in Arbele, sometimes called Barhadbesaba. He was caught up in the persecution conducted by Sassanid King Shapur II and was tortured by the governor of the Persian region of Adiaban in modern Iran. Aggai, an apostate Christian, was ordered to behead Barhadbesciabas. lie used the ax with such clumsiness that he had to strike the martyr again in order to slay him.
Barhadbesciabas (alternately Barhadbesaba or Barhadbescialas) (died July 20, 355) is venerated as a Christian martyr who was decapitated during the reign of Shapur II. A deacon of Arbela, in the Sassanid Empire, he was arrested by the governor of Arbela, Sapor Tamaspor, and put on the rack.
Tradition states that the authorities ordered Aghaeus, an apostate Christian nobleman, to kill Barhadbesciabas with a sword.
Another Christian of the same name was martyred with Abda and Abdjesus in 366.
His feast day is July 21.
