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Addai - ܐܕܝ

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Addai (Aday) was one of the 72 apostles commissioned by Jesus to be a missionary. Aday was ordained by Addai to travel to Edessa, and he cured King Abgar's foot. The conversion of Edessa was attributed to his missionary activity and described in the Teaching of Addai.

Names

  • ܐܕܝ1
  • Addai
  • Aday
  • Addai8
  • Addaï1
  • ADDAÏ2
  • Addaï apôtre1
  • ʾAdday1

Sex

male2

Notes

Addai (Aday) was one of the 72 apostles commissioned by Jesus to be a missionary. Aday was ordained by Addai to travel to Edessa, and he cured King Abgar's foot. The conversion of Edessa was attributed to his missionary activity and described in the Teaching of Addai.
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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, entry: 77, 717, 1240, 1325, 1438.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 2 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 29.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Paul Bedjan (ed.), Acta martyrum et sanctorum (Parisiis; Lipsiae: Harrasssowitz, 1890)., : I, 51-52.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)., : 24.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)., : I, 8-14.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 56-57.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 7 George Howard (ed.), The teaching of Addai, Texts and translations, vol. 16 (Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1981)Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 8 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Addai.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Addai — ܐܕܝ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1118.

Bibliography:

Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Addai — ܐܕܝ .”, 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/1118.

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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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