SPEAR Factoids about

Syriaca.org URI: http://syriaca.org/place/2758

Events

Elijah died before becoming a monk, but his wife and daughter joined a convent in Mabbug. The sisters presided over a monastery in N'ns, in the region of Anzetene. See factoid page


John went about preaching and teaching the Christian faith in Urtaya Urtaye and spoke the language of Urtaye. As such, many believed that John was Urtaya and called him by that name. John was actually Syrian. See factoid page


Sometime after 451 Addai was deposed by those attempting to enforce the heresy of the Council of Chalcedon. He exhorted the brothers to remember the poor, and retreated to his exile in the mountains east of Anzetene. See factoid page


Five years after the Council of Chalcedon, when the monastery at Fardaisa was brought to indigence, the brothers approached Addai in his exile. To recover financially, they began planting vineyards throughout the mountains east of Anzetene. Merchants from Cappadocia, who would go as far Syria to buy wine. Selling wine allowed Addai to begin feeding the poor again. See factoid page


Abraham II was promoted to the bishopric in Urtaye in the district of Anzetene. See factoid page


Births:

Birth place: Abraham IV was born in Anzetene. See factoid page

Birth place: Mari was born in Anzetene. See factoid page

Residence:

Mare resided in Hula in the district of Anzetene . See factoid page

Harfat resided in Anzetene. See factoid page

Occupation(s):

Addai was chorepisocpus in a monastery in a village called Fardaisa, at the approach to the Armenian frontier in the district called Anzetene. See factoid page

Abraham II was Bishop of Urtaye in the district of Anzetene. See factoid page

How to cite:

“Place Page for ,” in SPEAR: Syriac Persons Events and Relations, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, $nav-base/aggregate/place/2758.html, 2023-10-10T09:27:28.188-04:00.