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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

Sex

male2

Floruit

350-4502

Attestation

Zayʿa is commemorated in Zaï‘a (text) [http://syriaca.org/work/255] .

2

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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Works Cited

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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 34.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 469.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Paul Bedjan (ed.), Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Parisiis; Lipsiae: Harrasssowitz, 1890)., : I, 398-423.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 4 Paul Peeters and Société de Bollandistes, Bibliotheca hagiographica orientalis (1910)., : 1251.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic recordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 5 Addai Scher, Kitāb ašhar šuhadā' al-mašriq (Vies des saints martyrs d'Orient (Mossoul, 1900)., : II, 129-32.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link 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.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Zayʿa — ܙܝܥܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1525.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Zayʿa — ܙܝܥܐ .”, 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/1525.

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Entry Title: Zayʿa — ܙܝܥܐ

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  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Data architecture and encoding by David A. Michelson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Entries adapted from the work of Jean Maurice Fiey
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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