Abraham of Beth Sayyare - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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In hagiography: Abraham the Penitent (or
of Beth Sayyare) was a monk
from the family of Awgin and Abraham the
Great. He founded a monastery at Zāwīṯā, west
of Bamarne.
Names
- Abraham of Beth Sayyare
- ABRAHAM DE BÉṮ ṢAYYRĀÉ1
- Abraham the Penitent
Sex
male1
Event
The saint is venerated on last Friday of October in the East Syriac calendar.
1
Notes
In hagiography: Abraham the Penitent (or
of Beth Sayyare) was a monk
from the family of Awgin and Abraham the
Great. He founded a monastery at Zāwīṯā, west
of Bamarne.
Status: incomplete
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Works Cited
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- 1 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 21.
- 3 Jean Maurice Fiey, "L'apport de Mgr Addaï Scher († 1915) à l'hagiographie orientale." Analecta Bollandiana vol. 83 (1965).
- 4 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 18.
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Abraham of Beth Sayyare.”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson. Vol. 1 of Gateway to the Syriac Saints, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1111.About this Entry
Entry Title: Abraham of Beth Sayyare
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