Aha the Solitary - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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In hagiography: Aḥa the solitary of Resh ʿAyna was a soldier in the Persian army; later he founded a monastery near Nisibis, traveled on extensive pilgrimages, and returned with a piece of the true cross. He converted a village of pagan Armenians.

Names

  • Aha the Solitary
  • AḤḤA LE SOLITAIRE1
  • Ahha the Solitary

Sex

male1

Floruit

5731

Event

The saint is venerated on Jan 25 in Rabban Saliba. 1

Notes

In hagiography: Aḥa the solitary of Resh ʿAyna was a soldier in the Persian army; later he founded a monastery near Nisibis, traveled on extensive pilgrimages, and returned with a piece of the true cross. He converted a village of pagan Armenians.
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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: 35.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Paul Peeters, "Le martyrologe de Rabban Ṣalība." Analecta Bollandiana vol. 27 (1908)., : 168, 174.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 4 J.M. Vosté, al-Ṭarfa fī mahṭūṭāt al-Šarfa (Catalogue des manuscrits de Charfet) (Jounieh, 1937)., : 87 n° 3, fol. 73v-106r. Note: A Chaldean copy from 1903 of the legend of Aḥḥa, according to the codex Vat. xxxvn, belongs to the library of the Couvent de Notre Dame des Moissons today in Baghdad. See .Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961-1970)., : I, 131.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 6 Jean Maurice Fiey, Assyrie chrétienne contribution à l'étude de l'histoire et de la géographie ecclésiastiques et monastiques du nord d'Iraq. (Beyrouth, 1965)., : II, 621-25.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Aha the Solitary” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1124.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Aha the Solitary.”, 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/1124.

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