Daniel (prophet)

Daniel is one of the Grands prophets of the Hebraic Bible or Old Testament.

The Book of Daniel who to him is allotted figure among the Ketouvim for the Judaïsme. It is also, according to the canonical order of the Church Catholique, the last of the four Grands prophets.

According to the biblical account, Daniel is only one teenager when it is off-set with Babylon. By its wisdom, it gains the confidence of Nabuchodonosor: he becomes civil servant of court and interprets the dreams of the king.

Its reputation enables him to continue its activity after the catch of Babylon by the Mèdes and Persians into 539 before the Christian era. The king mède Darius appreciates this perspicacious adviser but enemies make it fall in disgrace and the monarch is constrained to throw it in grazing ground with the Lion S. Fidèle to his faith, it draws aside the torment miraculeusement and is seen pardoned.

It completes its service of prophet in Babylon because it is undoubtedly old of almost 100 years as the edict of Cyrus into 538 before the Christian era allows return of exile.

Its tomb is venerated with Suse in Iran (Élam or Khouzistan).

Towards 1400, the emperor turco-Mongolian Tamerlan brought back Perse to Samarkand a Relique supposed (an arm, or the whole body, according to the versions) of Daniel, who is called Uzbek Doniyor in . One thus finds also a tomb of Daniel in Samarkand.

The orthodoxe Church the festival the December 17th with Ananias, Azarias and Misaël, three young people who rented God in the furnace of Babylon.

See too

the Book of Daniel

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