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• Abgar legend.
• in early Christian times, a popular myth that Jesus had an exchange of letters with King Abgar V Ukkama of Osroene, whose capital was Edessa, a Mesopotamian city on the northern fringe of the Syrian plateau. According to the legend, the king, afflicted with leprosy, had heard of Jesus' miracles and wrote to Jesus acknowledging his divine mission, asking to be cured, and… .
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• According to the legend, King Abgar of Edessa was sick and sent a letter to Jesus asking him to come to his city (modern-day Sanli Urfa in South Turkey) to help him. Jesus replied he had a mission to fulfill, but when the king's messenger arrived, Abgar was miraculously healed. ...
• Obviously there seems to be a connection between the story of the sweat cloth of Veronica healing the Emperor Tiberius and the handkerchief of Abgar´s messenger after the King's miraculous healing. ...
• If this indeed was the case, it proves that the Turin Shroud is much older than the controversial 1988 carbon dating claimed (1260-1390!) because the Vatican Mandylion is of the 3rd Century (the oldest version of the Abgar legend of the 4th Century) the Veronica legend goes back to the 6th, its veneration in St. ...
• Prosperous Edessa, astride a major east-west caravan route, was ruled by King Abgar V from 13 to 50. Our best account of Abgar's story comes form Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, who wrote his famous History of the Church about 325. ...
• Abgar, suffering from an incurable disease, invited Jesus to come to Edessa to heal him. ...
• From several sources we learn that, knowing of the correspondence between Abgar and Jesus, Thomas assigned Thaddaeus one of the orginal 12 disciples - Mark 13:18 , one of the 'Seventy', to go to Abgar in fulfillment of Jesus' promise and to carry the Shroud for deposit with Abgar for safekeeping. ...
• Eusebius "mentions the Abgar/Jesus correspondence and (instead of Veronica) the woman with the 'issue of blood' who was cured when she touched Jesus' garment (Mark 5:25-34; Matthew 9:20-22; Luke 8:43-48). But Eusebius omits the figured cloth from his Abgar/Jesus account, and all account of such imprinted veils date from later times - probably the earliest certain reference being the mid-fourth-century The Doctrine of Addai. ...
• Thaddaeus holds the "Image of Edessa" while King Abgar V receives a healing.
• In The Doctrine of Addai "the Image of Edessa is described not as of miraculous origin but merely as the work of Hannan (Ananias), who 'took and painted a portrait of Jesus in choice paints, and brought it with him to his lord King Abgar'. ...
• Abgar lived until AD 50 and. ...
• before that date, there were only legends that linked the cloth to a King Abgar V of Edessa. ...
• " For the same intermediary between God and humanity Christ himself, in order to satisfy the king Abgar in every way, stretched out his whole body on a cloth white as snow, whereupon the glorious image of the countenance of our Lord and the length of his whole body was so divinely pictured, that it suffices to allow all those who were not able to see the Lord bodily in the flesh, to see the transfiguration visible on the cloth. ...
• 1141), it is said that Jesus had a precious cloth sent to Abgar 'on which the image of the Savior appears portrayed in a miraculous manner; which allows the viewer to see the bodily form and proportions of the Lord'. Gervasius of Tilbury, in his work Otia Imperialia ('Imperial Leisure Hours') which he composed between 1209 and 1214 for Emperor Otto IV, recounted the version where Jesus imprints his whole body on a cloth and has it presented to Abgar. ...

• It's known more or less as "Jesus' Medical Correspondence with King Abgar the Dark of Edessa"--though "business correspondence" might be more accurate, since he says, in essence, "Here's my press packet--I'll get back to you on Tuesday. ... > Copy of a letter written by the toparch Abgar > to Jesus, and sent to him at Jerusalem by the > hand of Ananias the courier: Abgar Uchama the > toparch to Jesus the good Saviour, who has > appeared in the city of Jerusalem, greeting. ... > > The reply sent by Jesus, by the hand of Ananias > the courier, to the toparch Abgar: Blessed art > thou, who hast believed in me without having > seen me. ...

• According to a legendary tale, Christ himself left the image of his visage on a linen, which would then be sent to King Abgar, who wanted to meet Jesus. ...

• Perhaps the most celebrated of the reputed original portraits of the Redeemer is that said to have been received by Abgarus, King of Edessa, mentioned by Evagrius. Eusebius gives a letter sent by the said Abgar to Jesus Christ, professing the conviction which the Redeemer's miracles had wrought in his mind of the divine character of our Lord, and entreating him to come to Edessa and cure a disease under which the king had long laboured; —together with our Lord's answer, declining to come, but promising to send a disciple to heal the king. ... "Abgar sent a painter to take the likeness of the Saviour, if he would not vouchsafe to visit Edessa. ... But Jesus, being willing to satisfy the desire of King Abgar, took a clean handkerchief and applied it to his countenance. ... Thaddeus went to Edessa after Christ's ascension and healed Abgar. ...

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• Abgar legend.
• in early Christian times, a popular myth that Jesus had an exchange of letters with King Abgar V Ukkama of Osroene, whose capital was Edessa, a Mesopotamian city on the northern fringe of the Syrian. ...
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• King Abgar Ukkama, a brilliant and successful monarch of Mesopotamia was dying from a terrible physical disorder which no human power could heal. Having heard about Jesus' ability to heal, the King sent Jesus a letter, begging for relief from his disease. Jesus promised that he would send one of his disciples to cure the king's disease, and at the same time to bring salvation to him and his people. After Jesus' death and resurrection, Jude Thaddeus was sent to Edessa to heal the King. After examining the king's faith (in the healing power of Jesus), Jude laid his hands on the king and healed him of his infirmities. At daybreak, king Abgar instructed his citizens to assemble and to hear the preaching of the Good News by Jude Thaddeus. ...
• This manuscript records that after having won favor from King Abgar with his miracles in Edessa, the apostle pressed eastward to Armenia to the court of King Sanatrouk, son of Abgar's sister. The apostle "arrived at the king's court to preach the good news of the kingdom of heaven, and there performed miracles and cured all kinds of sicknesses. Many believed his words and were baptized, including the king's daughter. Upon learning of this, king Sanatrouk grew wrathful and sent one of his princes to murder the apostle and his own daughter. ... " Then the king's men murdered Jude with a sword and buried him in the midst of an overturned rock. ...

• This web site is dedicated to every person who is interested in the: Art, History, Culture, and Language, of this ancient city that was blessed by Jesus Christ, and which became the capital of the Kingdom of Osroene, the first kingdom in the world that adopted Christianity as the official state religion under its King Abgar (V) Ukomo who was contemporary to Jesus Christ, corresponded with him and was healed by St. ...   Abgar & Jesus.

• Eusebius of Caesarea had a hand in the process by reporting a supposed correspondence between King Abgar V in Edessa and Jesus. ...
• Jesus-Abgar Correspondence.
• Indeed, the whole of his history is concerned with the church in the Mediterranean world, and the insertion of the Abgar-Jesus correspondence stands out as a conspicuous deviation from his main theme. ...
• According to Eusebius's account, King Abgar sent a letter to "Jesus, the good Deliverer," saying that he had heard of the cures he had wrought, without medicine or herbs, and had concluded that Jesus was either God or the son of God: "I have written to request that you would trouble yourself to come to me, and cure this disease which I have; for I have also heard that the Jews murmur against you, and wish to do you harm. ...
• ) He began making miraculous cures and Abgar realized that he must be the emissary promised by Jesus. The king told him that he believed in Jesus. Addai worked cures on the king and others, and converted many. ...
• Ephraim, writing half a century after Eusebius's account appeared, is effusive about the return of Thomas's bones to Edessa, but is silent about the Abgar-Jesus correspondence. ...
• Nestorians accepted as authentic the Jesus-Abgar correspondence and the report of Addai's mission to Edessa, acting as proxy for Thomas. ...
• Decline of the City of Abgar.
• This text considerably elaborated the mission of Addai to King Abgar. ... A new king of Osrhone ordered Aggai to make a golden crown for him, and the quondam worker in precious metals, now a prelate, refused. The king had him killed by breaking his legs, and he died so quickly that there was not time for him to consecrate his successor, a presbyter named Palut. ...
• As Segal reports, "The news was carried throughout Christendom that the city of Abgar had fallen to the Moslems. ...

• The Veronica tradition actually derives from an earlier one dating to the fourth century, that Jesus had once sent a miraculous self-portrait to King Abgar of Edessa. ...

• According to the legend, King Abgar of Edessa, who suffered .
• With his request, the king sent an artist .
• it to Saint Jude to bring to the king in order to heal him. ...
• king was cured and, together with most of his subjects, .

• Abgar V* Oukhama (King of Osrhoene).
• TITLE: King of Osrhoene.
• __ | _Mannos III* Safelou _| | | | |__ | | |--Abgar V* Oukhama | (. ...
• Family 1 : Theoderic III* Burgundy, King of FRANKS .

• The icon below represents the apostle Thaddaeus -- who, with Bartholomew, evangelized Armenia -- holding the "Image of Edessa" while King Abgar V receives a healing (6th C, Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai).
• King Abgar V of Edessa saw the inspiring visage of Christ on the "Image of Edessa;" this gave him the faith and the strength he needed to overcome his weaknesses and illnesses. ...

• Thomas to the court of King Abgar the Black, the second century Osroene ruler. Legendary accounts claim Abgar wrote to Christ asking Jesus to cure him of an intolerable and incurable illness. Abgar's court was in Edessa in Asia Minor (modern Turkey). Addal cured Abgar and converted the king and his people to the faith. ...

• King Abgar of the Syrian city of Edessa lived in the time of Christ and suffered pain from a terrible illness, some say blindness and others - a pestilential disease.
• Having heard of Christ and the miraculous wonders He wrought, King Abgar came to believe in Him and sent his scribe, Ananias with a personal letter addressed to Him.
• The letter actually asked Christ to consider coming to live with King Abgar in the city of Edessa and to heal him of his painful illness.
• Christ, according to tradition, wrote back to the king to tell him that this was impossible as He had been sent to fulfill the prophecies concerning Him in Israel. But He would send his disciple later to heal the king.
• The correspondence between Christ and King Abgar is actually kept as a sacred relic of the Armenian Church today. ...
• There was even a petition circulating then to ask the Archbishop of Canterbury to place that correspondence into the canon of the King James New Testament!.
• Christ then approached Ananias Himself and praised the faith of King Abgar. ... Other sources say that it was one of Christ's 70 disciples, St Thaddeus, who went with Ananias with the Image Not-made-by-human-hands back King Abgar of Edessa.
• Having touched the Image, the king was cured of his illness instantaneously and enshrined the Image above the gates of his city. ...

• King Abgar of Edessa lived in the time of Christ. ...
• The tradition then goes on to say that Christ sent Abgar a letter in reply.
• Christ thanks the king for his invitation but states that he must remain where he is to fulfill the prophecies concerning Him. ... He healed St Abgar who had his kingdom converted to Christianity at once.
• But who knows for sure? As a result of St Abgar's conversion, Armenia became the first Christian State and, next year, the Armenian Orthodox Church and people celebrate the 1700th anniversary of their Baptism!.
• The Armenian Church zealously keeps as a precious relic the correspondence between Abgar and Christ. ... During the 19th century, there was even an Anglican movement to petition the Archbishop of Canterbury to officially include the two part "Letter of Christ" into the Canon of the New Testament of the King James Bible.

• According to church tradition, the Syrian church at Edessa was founded after King Abgar had written a letter to Jesus requesting a healing and the Lord responded in writing that an apostle would be sent following his ascension. ...
• Jesus is said to have praised the King of Edessa by writing: "For it is written concerning me, that those who have seen me would not believe on me, but that they who have not seen might believe and live. ...
• The epistles of Jesus Christ and Abgarus, King of Edessa:.
• The letter to Jesus from King Abgarus.
• Abgarus, king of Edessa, to Jesus the good Savior, who appears at Jerusalem, greeting.
• The answer of Jesus to Abgarus the King, sent by Ananias, the footman.

• THE BOOK OF ABGAR .
• The Epistles of Jesus Christ and Abgarus King of Edessa. ...
• {A copy of a letter written by King Abgarus to Jesus, and sent to him by Ananias, his footman, to Jerusalem, inviting him to Edessa. ...
• 1:1 Abgarus, king of Edessa, to Jesus the good Saviour, who appears at Jerusalem, greeting. ...
• {The answer of Jesus by Ananias the footman to Abgarus the king, declining to visit Edessa. ...

• Abgar, the then king of Edessa, sent Hannan, the keeper of the archives, and others to Sabinus, the deputy in the east of the emperor Tiberius, with letters concerning the affairs of the kingdom. ... Hannan wrote down what he saw and heard of Christ, for the sake of making a full report to Abgar of our Lord's wonderful deeds on his return to Edessa. The king was greatly impressed by what was related to him, and as he himself was afflicted with a disease, and unable to obtain a cure, he wrote a letter to Jesus, entreating Him to come and heal him. ... A verbal reply was returned by our Lord to Abgar, in which He promised that after He had gone up to His Father, He would send one of His disciples to cure him of the disease. ... His arrival at the city was soon made known to Abgar, who sent immediately for him. Abgar, surrounded by his nobles, received Addai, and he in their presence cured the king of the disease from which he had for a long time been suffering. ...
• Accordingly we find it stated at the conclusion of the document, that, agreeably to the custom of the kingdom, Labubna, the king's scribe, "wrote these things of Addai, the Apostle, from the beginning to the end;" whilst Hannan, the king's sharrir, placed the account among the records. ... Alishan, who translated the Armenian version of "The Doctrine of Addai," under the title of "Lettre d'Abgar. " His words are:----"Notre opinion est qu'il est en grande partie rédigé par Laboubnia, Archiviste d'Edesse, contemporain d'Abgar et des disciples de notre Sauveur. ... The narrative of the portrait of our Lord painted by Hannan, which follows immediately after Abgar's letter, and our Lord's reply is not alluded to by Eusebius, although he has followed the Syriac both before and after this statement. ... Eusebius has devoted a chapter of his Ecclesiastical History to Abgar, and the planting of the church at Edessa by Addai. The Syriac of this chapter, from the letter of Abgar to the end is substantially the same as the Syriac of the corresponding portion of our document. ... He might have consistently employed the pronoun us, if the extract, which constitutes a chapter of his history, had been made by a person living at a previous period, who |viii wrote, as he himself afterwards did, on the affairs of Abgar, and the origin of the Church at Edessa. ... He himself says that what is contained in his chapter from the letter of Abgar to the end was translated from Syriac into Greek. ...
• Gregoire l'illuminateur, et qui occupa la chaire patriarcale de 389 a 439; on y lit, le 17 mai; Fête de |ix l'Invention de la Croix, cherchez dans la Lettre d'Abgar; Patronicée et lisez-la. " We infer from this quotation that the letter of Abgar (this is sometimes found as the title of the work) containing the story of Protonice was known in the fourth century, that Protonice had then a place in the calendar of the Armenian Church, and that the festival of the Invention of the Cross existed in that century. ...

• In Muslim tradition this was where Abraham rebuked King Nimrod and his subjects because of their worship of idols (Sura vi:74- 79). For the insult and his refusal to follow the king’s practice, Abraham was condemned to be burned. ...
• The Christian influence in Edessa, according to the 4th century Christian historian Eusebius, began when King Abgar V (4 BC AD 50) addressed a letter to Jesus asking him to come cure him of his leprosy.

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• The Legend of Abgar.
• the letter of Abgar to Our Lord; .
• The legend, according to these two works, runs as follows: Abgar, king of Edessa, afflicted with an incurable sickness, has heard the fame of the power and miracles of Jesus and writes to Him, praying Him to come and heal him. ... The letters of Our Lord and of the king of Edessa vary in the version given in Eusebius and in that of the "Teaching of Addaï. ...
• Abgar Ouchama to Jesus, the Good Physician Who has appeared in the country of Jerusalem, greeting: .
• The nature of Abgar's sickness has been gravely discussed, to the credit of various writers' imaginations, so holding that it was gout, others leprosy; the former saying that it had lasted seven years, the latter discovering that the sufferer had contracted his disease during a stay in Persia. ...
• In addition, however, to the importance which it attained in the apocryphal cycle, the correspondence of King Abgar also gained a place in liturgy. ... The Syrian liturgies commemorate the correspondence of Abgar during Lent. ... 4, 2), gives two collects on the lines of the letter to Abgar. ...
• Hannan, who wrote at Our Lord's dictation, was archivist at Edessa and painter to King Abgar. ...

• 3 And Abgar was astonished and marvelled, because, like as he had heard about Jesus, how He wrought and healed, so Addaeus also, without any medicine whatever, was healing in the name of Jesus. ... Abgar said to him: Now that every man knoweth that by the power of Jesus Christ thou doest these miracles, and lo! we are astonished at thy deeds, I therefore entreat of thee to relate to us the story about the coming of Christ, in what manner it was, and about His glorious power, and about the miracles which we have heard that He did, which thou hast thyself seen, together with thy fellow-disciples. ... And Abgar commanded them to give to Addaeus silver and gold. ... And he related before Abgar the king, and before his princes and his nobles, and before Augustin, Abgar's mother, and before Shalmath, 6 the daughter of Meherdath, 7 Abgar's wife, 8 the signs of our Lord, and His wonders, and the glorious mighty-works which He did, and His divine exploits, and His ascension to His Father; and how they had received power and authority at the same time that He was received up- -by which same power it was that he had healed Abgar, and Abdu son of Abdu, the second person 9 of his kingdom; and how He informed them that He would reveal Himself at the end of the ages 10 and at the consummation of all created things; also of the resuscitation and resurrection which is to come for all men, and the separation which will be made between the sheep and the goats, and between the faithful and those who believe not. ... (7) Turn not away, therefore, from his faith: for, lo! ye have heard and seen what things bear witness to His faith--showing that He is the adorable Son, and is the glorious God, and is the victorious King, and is the mighty Power; and through faith in Him a man is able to acquire the eyes of a true mind,(8) and to understand that, whosoever worshippeth creatures, the wrath of justice will overtake him. ... And when Addaeus the apostle had spoken these things before all the town of Edessa, and King Abgar saw that all the city rejoiced in his teaching, men and women alike, and heard them saying to him, "True and faithful is Christ who sent thee to us"--he himself also rejoiced greatly at this, giving praise to God; because, like as he had heard from Hanan,(4) his Tabularius, about Christ, so had he seen the wonderful mighty-works which Addaeus the apostle did in the name of Christ. And Abgar the king also said to him: According as I sent to Christ in my letter to Him, and according as He also sent to me, so have I also received from thine own self this day; so will I believe all the days of my life, and in the selfsame things will I continue and make my boast, because I know also that there is no other power in whose name these signs and wonders are done but the power of Christ whom thou preachest in verity and in truth. ... And when Abgar was gone down to his royal palace he rejoiced, he and his princes with him, Abdu son of Abdu, and Garmai, and Shemashgram,(8) and Abubai, and Meherdath,(9) together with the others their companions, at all that their eyes had seen and their ears also had heard; and in the gladness of their heart they too began to praise God for having turned their mind towards Him, renouncing the paganism in which they had lived,(10) and confessing the Gospel of Christ. ... But neither did King Abgar nor yet the Apostle Addaeus compel any man by force to believe in Christ, because without the force of man the force of the signs compelled many to believe in Him. ... Aggaeus, moreover, who(5) made the silks(6) and headbands of the king, and Palut, and Barshelama, and Barsamya, together with the others their companions, clave to Addaeus the apostle; and he received them, and associated them with him in the ministry, their business being to read in the Old Testament and the New,(7) and in the prophets, and in the Acts of the Apostles, and to meditate upon them daily; strictly charging them to let their bodies be pure and their persons holy, as is becoming in men who stand before the altar of God. ... " And they ministered with him in the church which Addaeus had built at the word and command of Abgar the king, being furnished with supplies by the king and his nobles, partly for the house of God, and partly for the supply of the poor.

• The cloth, according to legend, brought about the healing of King Abgar's leprosy. Read more about Edessa, King Abgar and the Doctrine of Addai here from the Catholic encyclopedia.

• Jesus and King Agbar at Edessa. ...
• Abgar was a dynasty name in a Frankish state in the Edessa area - first home of Christianity east of the Euphrates. Legend: Abgar V, suffering from an incurable disease, wrote Jesus asking him to come to Edessa to live and to heal him. ...

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