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Zayʿa - ܙܝܥܐ

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Zayʿa was one of the most popular saints in the Chaldean and Assyrian villages. He was a Palestinian and was a missionary to northern Iraq, along with his disciple Tabor. He lived forty years in a cave of Mount Gara.

Names

  • ܙܝܥܐ1
  • Zayʿa
  • St Zaya6
  • Zaï‘a1
  • Zay'a
  • ZAY'A2
  • Zayʾā1
  • Zayʿa

Floruit

350-450

Sex

male2

Notes

Zayʿa was one of the most popular saints in the Chaldean and Assyrian villages. He was a Palestinian and was a missionary to northern Iraq, along with his disciple Tabor. He lived forty years in a cave of Mount Gara.
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    • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 34. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 469. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 3 Paulus Bedjan, Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 7 vols. (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890), vol: Ip: 398-423. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 4 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 1251. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 5 Addai Scher, Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: IIp: 129-32. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 6 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: St Zaya