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Sharbel, and was arrested and tried after
Sharbel was martyred. The arrest triggered popular protests, and the judge delayed torturing or executing him despite his refusal to obey the emperor's decree. Then a new decree reached Edessa that repealed the previous one and ordered his release. The crowd received him with enthusiasm as a "persecuted confessor" and friend of Sharbel.
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In the alternative version, Barsimeo, bishop of Edessa, was beaten with rods for his faith in Christ under the emperor Decius. After he was released from prison, he devoted the rest of his life to the governance of the church that had been entrusted to him. A variant says that
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St. Barsimæus, Bishop and Martyr He was the third bishop of Edessa from Saint
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