Addai - ܐܕܝ
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Addai (Aday) was one
of the 72 apostles commissioned by Jesus to be a missionary. Aday was
ordained by Addai to travel to Edessa, and he cured King Abgar's foot. The conversion of
Edessa was attributed to his missionary activity and described in the
Teaching of Addai.
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Sex
male2
Notes
Addai (Aday) was one of the 72 apostles commissioned by Jesus to be a missionary. Aday was ordained by Addai to travel to Edessa, and he cured King Abgar's foot. The conversion of Edessa was attributed to his missionary activity and described in the Teaching of Addai.Status: draft
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 77717124013251438.
- 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 29.
- 3 Paulus Bedjan, Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: Ip: 51-52.
- 4 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 24.
- 5 Addai Scher, Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: Ip: 8-14.
- 6 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: Ip: 56-57.
- 7 George Howard, The Teaching of Addai, SBL Texts and Translations 16, Early Christian Literature Series 4 (Chico, California:
Scholars Press, 1981).
- 8 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Addai