Aha the Solitary
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Aha the Solitary; Ahha the Solitary; AḤḤA LE SOLITAIRE
identifier: http://syriaca.org/person/1124
identifier: 35
sex: male
floruit: 573
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.
event: The saint is venerated on Jan 25 in Rabban Saliba.
Saints Syriaques AḤḤA LE SOLITAIRE 35
Peeters Martyrologe 168, 174
[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] Catalogue Vosté 87 n° 3, fol. 73v-106r
A. Moreschini BS I, 131
Fiey Assyrie chrétienne II, 621-25