Abgar V Ukkama the Black - ܐܒܓܪ
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Names
- ܐܒܓܪ1
- Abgar V Ukkama the Black
- Abgar1
- ABGAR V LE NOIR (ŪKĀMĀ)2
- Abgar V Ukkama ('the Black')5
- ʾAḇgar1
Floruit
13-50
Sex
male2
Event
The saint is venerated on March 1, 11, 13 and 14 of May, August 1 by West Syrians.
2
Notes
King of Edessa (4 BC–AD 7 and
13–50) and subject of hagiographical accounts regarding the conversion of
the population of Edessa to Christianity.
In hagiography: According to the legend
of the Teaching of Addai, King Abgar V "the Black" of Edessa converted to
Christianity through the missionary work of the apostle Addai. This led to the
conversion of the city of Edessa.
Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 1754, 1438.
- 2 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 13.
- 3 Alfred Baudrillart et al.,Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912), vol: I, col: col. 113-14.
- 4 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII,Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense,
1961), vol: I, p: 75-76.
- 5 T. S. Wardle,Abgarids of Edessa,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 5.
- 6 Aaron Michael Butts,Ethiopic Christianity, Syriac Contacts With,inGorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), 148–53, p: 150-151.
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