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Ábrahám Jenő
This is a list of people named after Abraham, the Biblical patriarch ( Ashkenazi ''Avrohom'' or ''Avruhom''); the father of the Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. As recounted in the Torah, his name was originally Avram which means "High Father" - "av" (אב) "father", "ram" (רם) "high" - with the "ha" (ה) added in mark of his covenant with God. In the Russian language, the name is used in the following forms: (''Avraam''),Nikonov, p. 50Superanskaya p. 20 (''Avraamy''), (''Avramy''),Superanskaya p. 30 (''Abram''),Petrovsky, p. 35 (''Abramy''), ('' Avram''), (''Obram''), and (''Abrakham''). Given name *Abraham of Kashkar, Mar Abraham I, bishop of the Church of the East (148–171 AD) * Abraham (Egyptian saint), martyred in Egypt with John of Samanoud and James of Manug * Saint Abraham (Ethiopian), a saint of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, part of the martyrs Abraham, Ethnus, Acrates, James, and John venerated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abram (given Name)
Abram is a male given name of Biblical Hebrew origin,Nikonov, p. 96 meaning ''exalted father'' in much later languages.NIV translation of the Bible, footnote to Petrovsky, p. 35 In the Bible, it was originally the name of the first of the three Biblical patriarchs, who later became known as Abraham. Russian name The Russian language borrowed the name from Byzantine Christianity, but its popularity, along with other Biblical first names, declined by the mid-19th century. The forms used by the Russian Orthodox church were "" (''Avraam''),Superanskaya p. 20 "" (''Avraamy''), and "" (''Avramy''),Superanskaya p. 30 but "" (''Abram'') remained a popular colloquial variant. Other colloquial forms included "" (''Abramy''), "" (''Avram''), and "" (''Obram''). Until the end of the 19th century, the official Synodal Menologium also included the form "" (''Abrakham'').Superanskaya pp. 23 and 30 The patronymics derived from "Abram" are "" (''Abramovich''; mascul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Of Kashkar
Abraham (Mar Oraham) of Kashkar was a legendary primate of the Church of the East, from the family of James, brother of Jesus, Jacob, the brother of Jesus, who is conventionally believed to have sat from 159 to 171. There are historical doubts about his existence by later scholars of the period. Sources Brief accounts of the life of Abraham are given in the ''Ecclesiastical Chronicle'' of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (''floruit'' 1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the Nestorian writers Mari (twelfth-century), Amr (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century). These accounts differ slightly, and these minor differences are of significance for scholars interested in tracing the various stages in the development of the legend. Life of Abraham The following account of the life of Abraham is given by Bar Hebraeus: After Abrisius, Abraham. He was also from the family of Jacob, the Lord's brother. He was consecrated at Antioch and sent into the East, where the Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Of The High Mountain
Abraham of the High Mountain (died 399) was a teacher of Barsauma. Abraham was not only a monk but a miracle-worker of the monastery of the High Mountain which is located to north of Mount Izla. He founded a monastery near Midyat where the stylite Abel was. Retrieved on 15 Mar 2018 A was dedicated in Abraham's name at Garbia near in . His biography was written by a disciple of his, Stephen. His |
Abraham (Copt)
Abraham of Farshut was an abbot and is a saint of the Coptic Church, and by extension all of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. His feast day in the calendar of saints of the Coptic Church is February 12. Life He was born in Farshut, near the modern city of Hiww. His parents, who were Christians and locally important figures, died when Abraham was twelve. The next year, Abraham tried unsuccessfully to persuade his sister to retain her virginity. Thereafter, Abraham left to join the monastery of Pachomius at Pbow. This monastery was at the time under the direction of Pshintbahse. There Abraham devoted himself to trying to achieve the monastic ideals. Abraham was elected abbot of the monastery on the death of Pshintbahse. Shortly thereafter, Justinian I requested that Abraham be brought to Constantinople, in an attempt to bring those monks who still rejected the decision of the Council of Chalcedon into communion with the greater church. The exact time of this event is unknown, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Of Farshut
Abraham of Farshut was an abbot and is a saint of the Coptic Church, and by extension all of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. His feast day in the calendar of saints of the Coptic Church is February 12. Life He was born in Farshut, near the modern city of Hiww. His parents, who were Christians and locally important figures, died when Abraham was twelve. The next year, Abraham tried unsuccessfully to persuade his sister to retain her virginity. Thereafter, Abraham left to join the monastery of Pachomius at Pbow. This monastery was at the time under the direction of Pshintbahse. There Abraham devoted himself to trying to achieve the monastic ideals. Abraham was elected abbot of the monastery on the death of Pshintbahse. Shortly thereafter, Justinian I requested that Abraham be brought to Constantinople, in an attempt to bring those monks who still rejected the decision of the Council of Chalcedon into communion with the greater church. The exact time of this event is unknown, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Of Egypt
Abraham of Egypt or Abraham of Minuf was a fourth-century monk and hermit of Egypt, is known only from the Synaxarion. He was a native of Minuf in the Delta, born of Christian parents who held an important position in the world. We do not know at what age he joined the monastic life. From the ancient text we know only that "when he grew up, he went off to the land of Akhmim, to join the great Pachomius, who gave him the religious habit." He remained there for twenty-three years. Then he asked the permission to leave and live as a hermit in a cavern, where he stayed for sixteen years, leaving it only to receive communion every two or three years. He had at his service only a secular brother who was making fishing nets, and selling them to buy beans for him, giving alms with the rest of the money. When Abraham felt his death coming, he sent for Abba Theodore, disciple of Pachomius, then he lay down facing the east. He was buried by the monks in the cemetery of the monastery. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Of Cyrrhus
Saint Abraham (Cyrrhus, Syria, 350–Constantinople, 422) (also known as Abraames, Abraham of Charres and Abraham the Apostle of Lebanon was a Syrian hermit and bishop of Harran. Life Abraham was born and educated at Carrhae (modern Harran) in Syria, and preached the Gospel in the valley of Mount Lebanon, where he lived as a hermit. His life was described by Theodoret of Cyr (393-466 A.D.), the Bishop of Cyrrhus, who named him among the other thirty holy men and women in his book "Historia Religiosa" (Religious History). He spent the first part of his life in the desert of Chalcis where he lived an ascetic life, he tried his body by fasting and still standing and was so exhausted that could not move. But then he left for Lebanon as a merchant and helped the inhabitants of the village where he stayed to pay the taxes with the help of his friends. The name of the village is not known but it is believed to be '' Aqura- Afka''. "It was probably located in ''Aqura'' near the riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Of Clermont
Abraham of Clermont (died 479) was the founder and abbot of the monastery of Cyriacus, St.Cyriacus in Clermont-Ferrand. He was born in Byzantine Syria, along the Euphrates River and was of Persian origins. He later left for Byzantine Egypt, to visit some of the hermits there. On the way to Egypt, he was captured and held a prisoner for five years. After escaping, he went to Gaul and founded a new community of monks near the basilica of Saint Cyricus not far from St. Illidius church (St.Allyre) near Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont. He died around 479. Apollinaris Sedonius, bishop of Clermont wrote an epitaph on the grave of St. Abraham from which we learned some facts from saint's life. Veneration His feast day is celebrated on June 15.Roman Martyrology He is also a patron saint against fever. References External sources * Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924. * Acta Sanctorum June 3:534–536. r. aigrain, Catholicis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Of Bet-Parsaje
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam (see Adam in Islam) and culminates in Muhammad. His life, told in the narrative of the Book of Genesis, revolves around the themes of posterity and land. Abraham is called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. This promise is subsequently inherited by Isaac, Abraham's son by his wife Sarah, while Isaac's half-brother Ishmael is also promised that he will be the founder of a great nation. Abraham purchases a tomb (the Cave of the Patriarchs) at Hebron to be Sarah' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Of Arazd
Abraham of Arrazd was an Armenian priest and a disciple of the Leontine martyrs. Like his teachers, he was subjected to prolonged torture, but unlike them, was eventually set free. He then left society to become a hermit, remaining one until his death in the 5th century. He is regarded as a saint by the Armenian Church, with a feast day The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint. The word "feast" in this context d ... of December 20. References Sources * Holweck, F. G. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints''. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924. Year of birth missing 5th-century deaths Armenian saints Armenian hermits 5th-century Christian saints 5th-century Christian clergy Saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church {{Armenia-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Of Arbela
Abraham of Arbela (died 345) (also known as Abramius) was a bishop of Arbela (also Persian) in Assyria. During the imprisonment of Bishop Ioannis of Arbela, he was appointed as his deputy by the local religious community. The church historian Sozomen (died 450) described in the second book of his Christian Church, among other things, the persecutions and tortures that took place in the Persian Empire under Shapur II (died 379). In paragraph 8 of chapter 8 he says: Among the names he had been able to retrieve, the name of Bishop Abraham of Arbela also appeared. He was tortured and later beheaded under Shapur II because he refused to worship the sun in Telman. The saint is venerated on February 5. He has two feast days – February 4 and 5, but January 31 in the Catholic Church.Roman Martyrology The ''Roman Martyrology'' ( la, Martyrologium Romanum) is the official martyrology of the Catholic Church. Its use is obligatory in matters regarding the Roman Rite liturgy, but di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham (Persian Saint)
Saints Sapor, Isaac, Mahanes, Abraham, and Simeon (died 339 AD) were a group of Christians in Persia who were martyred under King Shapur II. Their feast day is 30 November. Monks of Ramsgate account The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their ''Book of Saints'' (1921), Butler's account The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'' under November 30, See also * Martyrs of Persia under Shapur II The Martyrs of Persia under Shapur II were Assyrian Christian martyrs who were put to death by Shapur II of Persia (r. 309–379) for failing to renounce their faith. There may have been several thousand in total. They are remembered as a group i ... Notes Sources * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sapor, Isaac, Mahanes, Abraham, and Simeon Year of birth missing 339 deaths Groups of Christian martyrs of the Roman era Persian saints 4th-century Christian saints Christians in the Sasanian Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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