Chusdazat (also known as Gothazat, Guhashtazad, and Usthazan) (?- Good Friday, 344) is the name of a priest and fellow martyr of Bishop

Simeon Barsabae Simeon () is a given name, from the Hebrew ( Biblical ''Šimʿon'', Tiberian ''Šimʿôn''), usually transliterated as Shimon. In Greek it is written Συμεών, hence the Latinized spelling Symeon. Meaning The name is derived from Simeon, so ...

. He was a eunuch of King Shapur II (Savori, or Sapor). His feast is celebrated on April 14 in the Syrian Church, April 17 in the

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, April 21 in the

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, April 30 in the

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, and the Friday after Easter in the Syriac Orthodox Church and the Assyrian Church of the East. Persecuting Christians in 341 CE, Shapur tortured Simeon and the priests Audel and Ananias. Seeing this, Chusdazat also declared his Christian belief. He was executed before

Simeon Simeon () is a given name, from the Hebrew (Biblical ''Šimʿon'', Tiberian ''Šimʿôn''), usually transliterated as Shimon. In Greek it is written Συμεών, hence the Latinized spelling Symeon. Meaning The name is derived from Simeon, so ...

and a thousand other Christians. The following year on Great Friday, the king executed another thousand Christians, but then he ceased executions because he regretted the loss of one of his favorite eunuchs, Azat.

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*Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1924. Year of birth missing 344 deaths 4th-century Christian clergy 4th-century Christian martyrs {{saint-stub