Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson, (eds.), "Sauma, Rabban — ܪܒܢ ܨܘܡܐ " in last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/721
    
        
            
                
                    
                        Ṣawma, Rabban
                    
                    
                        Sauma, Rabban
                    
                    
                        ܪܒܢ
                        ܨܘܡܐ
                    
                    Rabban Sauma
                    ܨܘܡܐ
                    ṣawmā
                    Sauma
                    Ṣaumā
                    Sauma
                    Ṣawma, Rabban
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                        Ṣawma was a monk of the Ch. of E. who, sometime around 1275, set out from Dadu
(also known as Khān Bālīq, i.e. modern Beijing) in his native China with a younger disciple, Markos, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
                    
                    13th cent.
                    In hagiography: Sauma,  Rabban is commemorated as the monastic teacher and travelling companion of the monk Markos who became the catholicos Yahbalaha III. Acting on behalf of the catholicos, Rabban Sauma travelled to Constantinople, Rome and even Paris
                    
                    
                        Ch. of E.
                    
                    
                        
                            Sauma,  Rabban is commemorated in Yahballaha and Sauma (text) — .
                    
                    
                        
                            
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