Maccabees

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Saint.name: The Holy Maccabees
Saint.birth_date: 2nd century BCE
Saint.death_date: 167–160 BCE
Saint.feast_day: August 1
Saint.venerated_in: Catholic ChurchEastern Orthodox ChurchesOriental Orthodox Churches
Saint.image: Stattler-Machabeusze.jpg
Saint.imagesize: 230px
Saint.caption: Wojciech Stattler's "Machabeusze" ("The Maccabees"), 1844
Saint.birth_place: Judea (modern-day Israel)
Saint.death_place: Judea
Saint.canonized_date: Pre-Congregation

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Commons category: Maccabees
inception: 0167-00-00
name in native language: מכבים

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Etymology
Background
Revolt
Hasmonean dynasty
Biblical accounts
Christian veneration and possible Jewish preceding tradition
The nine "Holy Maccabean Martyrs" in Christianity
Theory: Jewish ancient veneration
Hasmonean rulers
See also
References
Further reading
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The Maccabees (), also spelled Machabees (, or , ; or ; , ), were a group of Jewish rebel warriors who re-took control of Judea, which at the time was occupied by the Seleucid Empire. Its leaders, the Hasmoneans, founded the Hasmonean dynasty, which ruled from 167 BC (after the Maccabean Revolt) to 37 BC, being a fully independent kingdom from 104 to 63 BC. They reasserted the Jewish religion, freed Judea from the Syrian-Greek occupiers, and reduced the influence of Hellenism and Hellenistic Judaism.