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In hagiography: Abai was a Persian Martyr killed by his father, Adorpirozgerd, who later converted to Christianity. He was mentioned in the legend of Saba Pirgushnasp. He was martyred with his mother Astina (Hwarta) and 5000 friends.

Names

  • Abai
  • ĀBĀÏ1

Floruit

335-385

Sex

male1

Events

The saint is venerated on 1 October. 1 The saint is venerated on 2 October. 1

Notes

Acts of Abai and other martyrs are contained in a MS in the Library of the Syrian Orthodox patriarchate.2
Acts of these martyrs are contained in MS Sachau 241 in Berlin.3
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  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 4.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Isaac Barsaum, al-Lu'lu' al-manṯūr fī ta'rīh al-‘ulūm wa-l-ādāb al-suryānīya (Histoire de la littérature syriaque), 2nd ed. (Aleppo, 1956)., p: 177.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Eduard Sachau, Verzeichniss der syrischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin, Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin 23 (Berlin: A. Asher & Co, 1899), p: 814.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 British Museum, Department of Manuscripts and Frederic Madden, Catalogue of additions to the manuscripts in the British Museum in the year MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXLV (1850)., p: 8, 11.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Paul Peeters, "Le martyrologe de Rabban Sliba." Analecta Bollandiana vol. 27 (1908)., p: 163.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Isaac Barsaum, al-Lu'lu' al-manṯūr fī ta'rīh al-‘ulūm wa-l-ādāb al-suryānīya (Histoire de la littérature syriaque), 2nd ed. (Aleppo, 1956)., p: 625.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961)., vol: I, p: 13.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Abai” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1093.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Abai.”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1093.

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