Abraham of Beth Sayyare - [ Syriac Not Available ]

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In hagiography: Abraham the Penitent (or of Beth Sayyare) was a monk from the family of Awgin and Abraham the Great. He founded a monastery at Zāwīṯā, west of Bamarne.

Names

  • Abraham of Beth Sayyare
  • ABRAHAM DE BÉṮ ṢAYYRĀÉ1
  • Abraham the Penitent

Sex

male1

Event

The saint is venerated on last Friday of October in the East Syriac calendar. 1

Notes

In hagiography: Abraham the Penitent (or of Beth Sayyare) was a monk from the family of Awgin and Abraham the Great. He founded a monastery at Zāwīṯā, west of Bamarne.
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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: 21.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Jean Maurice Fiey, "L'apport de Mgr Addaï Scher († 1915) à l'hagiographie orientale." Analecta Bollandiana vol. 83 (1965).Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 18.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Abraham of Beth Sayyare” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1111.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Abraham of Beth Sayyare.”, 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/1111.

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  • Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
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  • 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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