Simeon of Beth Arsham
From Encyclopedia of Syriac Literature
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He witnessed the massacre of Christians by Jews in the Yemen:
- "The Jews amassed all the martyr's bones and brought them into the church where they heaped them up. They then brought in the priests, deacons, subdeacons, readers, and sons and daughters of the covenant...they filled the church from wall to wall, some 2,000 persons according to the men who came from Najran; then they piled wood all round the outside of the church and set light to it, thus burning the church with everyone inside it."
