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In hagiography: Aḥa the solitary of Resh ʿAyna was a soldier in the Persian army; later he founded a monastery near Nisibis, traveled on extensive pilgrimages, and returned with a piece of the true cross. He converted a village of pagan Armenians.

Names

  • Aha the Solitary
  • AḤḤA LE SOLITAIRE1
  • Ahha the Solitary

Floruit

573

Event

The saint is venerated on 25 January in Rabban Saliba. 1

Notes

A Chaldean copy from 1903 of the legend of Aḥḥa, according to the codex Vat. xxxvn, belongs to the library of the Couvent de Notre Dame des Moissons today in Baghdad. 4
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Works Cited

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  • 1 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 35.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 PeetersMartyrologep: 168, 174., p: 168, 174.
  • 4 Catalogue Vostép: 87 n° 3, fol. 73v-106r., p: 87 n° 3, fol. 73v-106r.
  • 5 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961-1970)., vol: I, p: 131.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 6 FieyAssyrie chrétiennevol: II, p: 621-25., vol: II, p: 621-25.

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