Hwara, son of Theodore - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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In hagiography: Hwara, son of Theodore lived
in the fourth century. He met a monk, Mar Aḥa, who had been taken captive by a
crypto-Christian soldier in the Persian army. Aḥa cured Hwara of being mute and in
response Hwara became a monk. They established monasteries near Nisibis, where Hwara was the successor of
Mar Aḥa.
Names
- Hwara, son of Theodore
- ḤWĀRA1
Sex
male1
Floruit
500-6001
Notes
In hagiography: Hwara, son of Theodore lived
in the fourth century. He met a monk, Mar Aḥa, who had been taken captive by a
crypto-Christian soldier in the Persian army. Aḥa cured Hwara of being mute and in
response Hwara became a monk. They established monasteries near Nisibis, where Hwara was the successor of
Mar Aḥa.
Same ref. as Aḥḥa.
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: 196.
- 4 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : II, 170-72,
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Hwara, son of Theodore.”, 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/1273.About this Entry
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