Addai of Edessa

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Thaddeus of Edessa
Saint Addai ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ
Oriental Orthodox Church
Church of Caucasian Albania
FeastAugust 5
PatronageAssyrians[1]

According to Eastern Christian tradition, Addai of Edessa (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ, Mar Addai or Mor Aday sometimes Latinized Addeus) or Thaddeus of Edessa[2] was one of the seventy disciples of Jesus.

Life

).

Based on various

Şanlıurfa, Turkey). He came to Jerusalem for a festival where he heard the preaching of John the Baptist (St. John the Forerunner). After being baptized in the Jordan River, he remained in Palestine and became a follower of Jesus. He was chosen as one of the seventy disciples sent in pairs to preach in the cities and places.[4]

After

Persia.[4] Thaddaeus ordained priests in Edessa, converted many to Christianity and built up the church there. He also went to Beirut to preach, and many believe that he founded a church there.[5]

The Syriac liturgy referred to as the

Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
.

His feast is celebrated on August 5 in the Christian calendar.[1]

Addai and the healing of King Abgar

Among the

Saint Mari.[9]

The story of how King Abgarus V

Eusebius of Caesarea.[13] In the origin of the legend, Eusebius had been shown documents purporting to contain the official correspondence that passed between Abgar and Jesus, and he was well enough convinced by their authenticity to quote them extensively in his Ecclesiastical History
. According to Eusebius:

Thomas, one of the twelve apostles, under divine impulse sent Thaddeus, who was also numbered among the seventy disciples of Christ, to Edessa, as a preacher and evangelist of the teaching of Christ. (Historia Ecclesiastica, I, xiii)

The story of the healing and Thaddeus' evangelizing efforts resulted in the growing of Christian communities in southern Armenia, northern Mesopotamia and in Syria east of Antioch. Thaddeus' story is embodied in the Syriac document,

72 Apostles sent out to spread the Christian faith.[15] By the time the legend had returned to Syria, the purported site of the miraculous image, it had been embroidered into a tissue of miraculous happenings.[16]

Various traditions

St. Addai also appears in the First Apocalypse of James and the Second Apocalypse of James.[17]

In Roman Catholic tradition, he and

Persian and Assyrian people.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Saint Who? Saints Addai and Mari". Magnificat. 20 (12). Magnificat USA: 76. January 2019.
  2. ^ Charles George Herbermann, The Catholic Encyclopedia (Universal Knowledge Foundation, 1913), p. 136.
  3. ^ Holweck, Frederick George. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints, B. Herder, 1924, p. 15
  4. ^ a b "Apostle Thaddeus of the Seventy", Orthodox Church in America
  5. ^ CNA. "St. Jude Thaddeus and St. Simon the Zealot, Apostles". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
  6. ^ Brown, Leslie W. (1956). The Indian Christians of St Thomas: An Account of the Ancient Syrian Church of Malabar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 281.
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  8. ^ Herbermann, Charles George (1913). The Catholic Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia Press. p. 282.
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  13. ^ Eusebius, Church History, 1.13 and 3.1
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  15. ^ Luke 10:1 – 20
  16. ^ Walter Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, 1934, (in English 1971) (On-line text)
  17. ^ Robert Eisenman, James the Brother of Jesus : The key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls, 1997 (Viking Penguin). Especially the section "Thaddeus, Judas Thomas and the conversion of the Osrhoeans", pp 189ff.

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Church of the East titles
Preceded by
Mar Thoma

(c. 34–c. 50)
Patriarch of the East
Bishop of Edessa

(c. 50–c. 66)
Succeeded by
Mar Aggai
(c. 66–c. 81)