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Aba I, catholicos - ܐܒܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ

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“Teacher of biblical interpretation, author, Catholicos (540-52).”1

Names

  • ܐܒܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ
  • Aba I, catholicos
  • ܐܒܐ5
  • ܡܪܝ ܐܒܐ2, 3
  • ܡܵܪܝ ܐܲܒܵܐ2
  • ĀBĀ (ĀWĀ)6
  • Abā I, Catholicos
  • Aba, catholicos5
  • Aba, Catholicos
  • Mar Aba I4
  • Mar Aba I, Katholikos12
  • Aba I1
  • ʾAḇā5

Floruit

540-552

Death

552

Sex

male6

Event

The saint is venerated on sixth friday of epiphany. 6

Notes

“Teacher of biblical interpretation, author, Catholicos (540-52).”1
In hagiography: Catholicos Abā I was a widely venerated saint in the Church of the East. He was a reformer, theologian, confessor, Zoroastrian Convert, and student of the School of Nisibis. He wrote against the practices of the Zoroastrians.
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    Works Cited

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    • 1 L. Van Rompay,Aba I,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), entry: 1, p: 1.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 2 ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha and ܕܨܘܿܒܵܐܥܲܒܕܝܼܫܘܿܥ, ܟܬ̣ܵܒ̣ܵܐ ܕܡܸܬ̣ܩܪܸܐ ܡܪܓܢܝܬ̣ܐ ܕܥܲܠ ܫܪܵܪܵܐ ܕܲܟ̣ܪܸܣܛܝܵܢܘܼܬ̣ܵܐ, ܐܲܨܲܚܬܵܐ ܬܪܲܝܵܢܝܼܬ̣ܵܐ2nd ed. (Mosul: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܬܐ ܕܥܕܬܐ ܥܬܝܩܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐMṭabbaʿtā ātoraytā d-ʿēdtā ʿattiqtā d-madnḥā, 1924), p: 70.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 3 Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticanavol: III, p: 75., vol: III, p: 75.
    • 4 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Mar Aba I.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 5 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 690, 1491.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 6 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 2.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 7 Mar Jab-Alaha,Histoire de Mar Jab-Alaha, Patriarche, et de Raban Sauma, ed. P. Bedjan, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1895), http://archive.org/details/histoiredemarjab00marj, p: 206-74.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Archive.org Bibliographic record
    • 8 Paul Peeters,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 595.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 9 Paul Peeters,Observations sur la vie syriaque de Mar Aba, catholicos de l’Eglise perse (540-552),inRecherches d’histoire et de philologie orientales, ed. Paul Peeters, vol. 1, 2 vols. (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1951), 117–63, vol: I, p: 116-63.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 10 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [=  Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: I, p: 1-4.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 11 Anton Baumstark,Geschichte Der Syrischen Literatur, Mit Ausschluss Der Christlich-Palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1922), p: 119-120.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 12 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina,Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 57.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
    • 13 J.-B. Chabot,Littérature Syriaque, Bibliothèque Catholique Des Sciences Religieuses (Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), p: 53-54.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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    Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Aba I, catholicos — ܐܒܐ ܩܕܡܝܐ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/306.

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    • Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
    • German data entry by Samer Khader
    • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
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    • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
    • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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