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Abraham of Kashkar - ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ

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"Monk, founder and abbot of the ‘Great Monastery’ on Mount Izla."1

Names

  • ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ
  • Abraham of Kashkar
  • ܐܒܪܗܡ3
  • ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ3
  • Abraham de Kashkar3
  • ABRAHAM DE KAŜKAR4
  • Abraham e Kashkar15
  • Abraham Kashkaraya
  • Abraham the Great
  • Abraham of Kashkar1
  • ʾAḇrāhām3
  • ʾAḇrāhām Kaškarāyā3

Birth

4924 or ca. 5001

Death

5864 or 5881

Sex

male4

Event

The saint is venerated on 2 May by East Syrians. 4

Notes

"Monk, founder and abbot of the ‘Great Monastery’ on Mount Izla."1 In hagiography: Abraham of Kashkar (Abraham the Great of Kashkar, or "the elder") was a celebrated reformer of monasticism in Mesopotamia and a great saint of the Church of the East. A student of the School of Nisibis, Abraham was a missionary, ascetic, and miracle-worker. He was called "Father of the Monks of the Orient."The rules of Abraham of Kashkar were edited in Syriac and translated into English by Vööbus.11
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Works Cited

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  • 1 L. Van Rompay, Abraham of Kashkar, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 8-9. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Abraham of Kashkar