Acta et passio sancti Anastasii Persae
· Anonymous (Greek hagiographer; a Latin passio was later made by Bede's circle)
· 7th century (Anastasius martyred 628)
· hagiography
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
HOLLIS Primo search 'Acta martyris Anastasii Persae' returns three records, all editions and none a translation: the Greek Acts edited by H. Usener (1894, language Greek), the same with Latin material (1894), and a 2025 Latin recension of Bede's translation (BHL 410b) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Acta%20martyris%20Anastasii%20Persae&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A query 'Acts of Anastasius the Persian English translation' returns only unrelated church-history records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Acts%20of%20Anastasius%20the%20Persian%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The only English-language items in HOLLIS are articles about the Latin transmission, e.g. X. Lequeux on the earliest Latin version. ANF/NPNF tables of contents (ccel.org) contain no Acts of Anastasius.
Greek martyr act of a Persian Zoroastrian convert executed at Beth Lapat in 628; important for Roman-Persian war, conversion, and the circulation of Greek martyr texts in Latin (Bede included a Latin version in his martyrology). Greek text: H. Usener, Acta martyris Anastasii Persae (1894). No English translation located.
Existing translations recorded
None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.
Electronic text
No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).
Scanned witnesses
Scan search: no scan located. No scan of the Greek Acts was located. Checked: (a) IA advancedsearch title:(Acta martyris Anastasii), title:(Anastasii) and Usener-1894 author/date queries - 0 hits; (b) IA full-text search (services/search/beta_page_production, service_backend=fts) for the phrase 'Acta martyris Anastasii': 203 hits, all citations/reviews (Theologisches Literaturblatt 1894, Bonner Universitäts-Kalender 1896, secondary monographs) and no copy of the edition; (c) BnF catalogue SRU 'bib.anywhere all "Anastasii Persae"' returns exactly one record - 'Acta M. Anastasii Persae / ab H. Usenero edita', 1894, ark cb315143847 (record HTTP 200) - but the record carries no Gallica document ark and no digitisation note, so the 1894 Bonn edition appears not to be online there; (d) DigiVatLib, MDZ, HMML, LOC could not be content-searched from this host (see source notes); Beta Masaheft is Ethiopic-only and N/A for a Greek work. The Greek text exists in print only (Usener 1894; later Flusin). A re-OCR target would have to be sourced out of band.
Parkes, James, 1896-1981. "The conflict of the church and the synagogue : a study in the origins of antisemitism." New York : Atheneum, 1969. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990003998110203941
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. "The decline and fall of the Roman Empire." Chicago : Encyclopædia Britannica, c1952. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990069548960203941
"Wild poets of ecstasy : an anthology of ecstatic verse." Nevada City, CA : Pelican Pond, 2011. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990129493140203941
Cite: Tergwame, “Acts of Saint Anastasius the Persian”
(greek gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-anonymous-acta-anastasii-persae