Abda of Hira

Abda of Hira
Abda of Hira
Died	680
Venerated in	Assyrian Church of the East

Abda of Hira (died 680) was a monk of the Church of the East.

He was born at Al-Hirah, the son of Hanif. He became a monk under Mar Abda of Gamre. After having taught as a disciple by Mar Babai he later lived in a cave. One of his miraculous actions was to have treated a wound of a hunter who had been injured by a lion with healing oil . He preached Christianity to the Zoroastrian Persians and was said to have performed many miracles before dying in his cave in 680.[1]

References

Fowden, Elizabeth Key (1999-11-30). The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21685-3.

Sources

Holweck, F. G. "A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints". St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1924.
Fowden, Elizabeth Key (1999). The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran. Los Angeles, USA: University of California Press, Ltd. p. 121.

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[1] Fowden, Elizabeth Key (1999-11-30). The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21685-3.