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• Their tradition claims that King Abgar, son of Na'na, on hearing of Christ and His remarkable miracles wrote to Him inviting Him to come to minister to his people. ...
• Also the coins of Edessa from 180-192 show a cross on the king's headgear. ...
• In 3258, the Sassanian king, Shopur I, captured Antioch and brought many learned scholars and doctors, among whom were Christians, back to Beth Lapat of Khuzistan, near Susa. Here they were ordered by the king to build a new city, Djondishapur, the future Eastern cultural, academic and medical center of learning. ...
• The Roman-backed king, Terdat, had been restored to the throne of the Osrohene Kingdom of Lesser Armenia, a small country of northern Mesopotamia, and in 301 he declared his kingdom a Christian state, the first in history, with Gregory the Illuminator as the Church's head. After King Terdat embraced the gospel his people became Christians. With the death of Constantine in 327 and of Terdat in 342, however, the Persian king launched an attack to regain the lost western territories. ...
• They finally succeeded in stirring their king to pass discriminatory laws against the Christians, which led to a renewal of persecution, on the grounds the Christians were friends of the Romans, sharing the sentiments of their enemy Caesar. ... In 399, a more tolerant Persian king, Yezdegerd I, came to the throne and the Romans again sought peace by sending an embassy seeking a treaty. ...
• During the year preceding the Mohammedan conquest Babai was the leader of the church in Persia, though there was no patriarch at the time as the king wanted a "Jacobite," a monophysite. ...
• The populace of each king is said to have been over 400,000 families. If there were five persons to a family, this would mean two million per king for a grand total of eight million. ...
• When the first embassy was sent from China to An-Shi (Parthia), the king of An-Shi ordered 20,000 cavalry to meet them on the eastern frontier. ...
• ) when the king of Ta-ts'in, An-tun, sent an embassy who, from the frontier of Jih-nan (Annam) offered ivory, rhinoceros horns, and tortoise. ... In… (643) the king of Fu-lin, Po-to-li, sent an embassy. ...
• 33 Again, "In the ninth month of the twentieth year K'ai-yuan (October 732) the king of Persia sent the chief Pan-na-mi (Barnubi) with the monk of great virtue, Chi-lieh (Cyriacus) as ambassadors with tribute. ...

• New Testament, apocryphon, letters of Jezus and king Abgar, with Psalm 028.
• Abgar.

• Luke does not mention Roman agents going to the provinces or the images of Augustus, but Moses has embroidered the episode as a means to introduce another apocryphal story about war between Herod and the contemporary king of Armenia (II 26). Or again, Moses connects the reference in John 12 to Greeks who wished to speak to Jesus with the messengers from King Abgar to Jesus as mentioned in the Abgar legend (1131). ...
• 18:7) to themselves; the Persian king Yazkert did 18  not realize that "the Lord scatters the intentions of the heathen" (Ps. ...

• Analyzing newly published documents and the coins of Edessa's last king, Abgar X (239-242 C. ... ), it concludes that this king took his throne in service to Rome during the confrontation with Sassanid Persia, holding an official 'consulship,' perhaps signifying a regional governorship. ... Focusing on Edessene religion, on Bardai san, the 'first Syriac philosopher,' and on artistic influences as reflected in funerary mosaics, it concludes that the period beginning with Abgar VIII was a Golden Age of prosperity and cultural production. ... The famous myth of an exchange of letters between a King Abgar and Jesus is shown to have no basis in fact, and not to reflect--as has been widely thought-- the conversion of a later king to Christianity. ...
• "A Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period" (1954).
• White King, esq. ...

• the time of Abgar,these things also are found preserved down to the present hour. ... Copy of the letter which was written by King Abgar to Jesus, and sent to Him by the hand of Hananias, the Tabularius, to Jerusalem "Abgar the Black, sovereign of the country, to Jesus, the good Savior, who has appeared in the country of Jerusalem: Peace. ...
• From among all kings           one wise king did the Daughter of the peoples find. ...
• the time of Abgar,these things also are found preserved down to the present hour. ... Copy of the letter which was written by King Abgar to Jesus, and sent to Him by the hand of Hananias, the Tabularius, to Jerusalem "Abgar the Black, sovereign of the country, to Jesus, the good Savior, who has appeared in the country of Jerusalem: Peace. ...
• the time of Abgar,these things also are found preserved down to the present hour. ... Copy of the letter which was written by King Abgar to Jesus, and sent to Him by the hand of Hananias, the Tabularius, to Jerusalem "Abgar the Black, sovereign of the country, to Jesus, the good Savior, who has appeared in the country of Jerusalem: Peace. ...

• The Holy Face atop this cloth packet, which many believe to be the Shroud now at Turin, was venerated from the first century, and was probably instrumental in healing King Abgar V (13-50 AD). ...
• After Jesus' death and Resurrection, this Apostle was thought to have been entrusted with the burial Shroud, which he took on a special mission, upon request, to heal King Abgar V of Edessa. This "little-known and obscure monarch is a landmark: he was long believed to be the first Christian king. ... Besides the iconography associated with the converted King Abgar, as well as the Abgar dynasty, any statue or graven image of the Apostle Jude Thaddeus depicts the packet bearing the healing visage of Christ, a venerable Eastern tradition traceable to his first century activity (Wilson 1991:115).
• According to some romantic traditions, the Holy Grail was taken to the Roman outpost, Britain, where it became linked with King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, only to be lost in the mists of time (Phillips 1995: 2-10). ... Is this linen cloth the Shroud? Did it really travel west to Britain or France? Daniel Scavone proposes that the fabled Holy Grail may have traveled eastward instead to Britio Edessenorum--the Castle at Edessa--the home of King Abgar and his dynasty (1996:18-22). ...

• Abgar King of Edessa  .
• Agbarus (Abgarus, Abgar, Awgar), therefore, who reigned over the nations beyond the Euphrates with great glory, and who was wasting away with a disease, both dreadful and incurable by human means when he heard the name of Jesus frequently mentioned, and his miracles unanimously attested by all, sent a supplicant message to him, by a letter-carrier, entreating a deliverance from his disease. ... Of this, also, we have the evidence, in a written answer, taken from the public records of the city of Edessa, then under the government of the king. ...

• In his Ecclesiastic History, Eusebius tells that Abgar V Ukama (the Black), king of Edessa at the time of Christ, was ill. ...
• It is a Syriac composition which includes various legends; in accordance with this version, Abgar sent his archivist and painter Hannan who came back to Edessa with an image of Jesus painted by him and with a letter in which Jesus promised the safety of the city. ...
• Icon of King Abgar with the image of Christ (M. ...
• 544 - In Edessa one discovers in a niche of the walls an image of Jesus that rids the city from the Persian siege by king Cosroe I Anushirvan. ...
• 1147 - The king of France, Louis VII during his visit to Constantinople worships the Shroud. ...
• 1171 - Manuel I Comneno shows to Amalrico, king of Latins of Jerusalem, the relics of the Passion between which there is the Shroud. ...

• Buck refers to a remark made by an Eddesan bishop once when he was showing the portrait of King Abgar to a pilgrim: "That is King Abgar. ... ) However the legend of Abgar suggest another meaning. According to a legend recorded in Eusebius in "Ecclesiastical History" (I,XIII) Abgar had heard of Jesus' miraculous powers and had written asking Jesus to come and heal him. ... When Thaddaeus, a disciple sent by Thomas, came into the presence of Abgar suddenly a great vision appeared to the king "on the face of the apostle" (from the Greek: en too prosoopoo tou apostopou). A later account in Doctrine of Addai speaks of Abgar having been shown a portrait of Jesus. ...

• Edessa in south eastern Turkey bordering Syria was one of the last Assyrian small kingdoms, it's king 'Abgar' sent three of his vezirs to meet our lord Jesut Christ, and later St. Thomas one of Jesus' appostles visited King Abgar in Edessa and the king and his kingdom professed Christianity, this is during the 3 A. ...

• According to legend, it was Christ who created the first icon: King Abgar of Edessa fell ill and sent the major-domo of his court to fetch Christ to heal him. Christ did not come himself, but pressed His face into a cloth, which was sent to the king. When he touched the cloth, the king was healed. ...

• Then, Peroz, the King of kings, received often some money from Romans to submit the Turkish-Moghul tribe of Hephtalit Huns. ...
• The king entrusted him. ...
• Then Kawad, that Josuah the Stylite considered as a bad man, tricky, treacherous, who didn't deserved to the title of king, went toward the strenghened place of Edessa. ...
• A dynasty, of which princes called Abgar and Manu,  reigned in Edessa, from about 69 B. ...
• The name of Edesse was surrendered by mystery and legends, for it protected famous relics, the letter that Christ would have written to the first Christian king, Abgar V (9-46 AD. ... For Josuah, Edessa was no less than Christ's city, and he would have promised himself to King Abgar that his town will be blessed and that no ennemy will have any power on it.
• D, the new Persian king Chosroes Ist Anoshirwan (531-579), Kawad' son, signed a treaty of "eternal" peace with Emperor Justinian, (527-565), but he denied it in 540 AD. ...
• “The same year, at the month of Îyâr (May), Chosroes, king of Persia, put an end to the truce, invaded Romans' territories, devastated Shura, Aleppo and Antioch. ...
• As said Procopus, a historian of Emperor Justinian, the inhabitants of Edessa, at the sixth century, put on the gate of the town, a copy of the famous letter from Jesus to Abgar. ...
• Power is given only by God to a king, a leader, he gives victory and allows his domination on a land. ...
• Power is given only by God to a king, a leader, he gives victory and allows his domination on a land. ...

• New Testament, apocryphon, letters of Jezus and king Abgar.
• Abgar.

• Wa'el Bar Sahru King Abgar Coin King Wa'el .

• But Julius himself gives us additional information about Thallus--he is mentioned two other times BEFORE this reference: And after 70 years of captivity, Cyrus became king of the Persians at the time of the 55th Olympiad, as may be ascertained from the Bibliothecae of Diodorus and the histories of Thallus and Castor, and also from Polybius and Phlegon, and others besides these, who have made the Olympiads a subject of study. ...
• Socialized with King Abgar IV the Great at Edessa .
• he added bishop-lists to the earlier sources' king-lists; EAM:110). ...
• And after Ogygus, on account of the vast destruction caused by the flood, the present land of Attica remained without a king till the time of Cecrops, 189 years. ...
• And after the 70 years of captivity, Cyrus became king of the Persians at the time of the 55th Olympiad, as may be ascertained from the "Bibliothecae" of Diodorus and the histories of Thallus and Castor, and also from Polybius and Phlegon, and others besides these, who have made the Olympiads a subject of study. ...

• He thereupon led me first to the palace of King Abgar, where he showed me a great marble statue of him very much like him, as they said having a sheen as if made of pearl. From the face of Abgar it seemed that he was a very wise and honourable man. Then the holy bishop said to me: "Behold King Abgar, who before he saw the Lord believed in Him that He was in truth the Son of God. ...

• According to Trimingham, the ruler of Edessa, king Abgar who became a Christian, was of Arab origin. ...
• As a result the Himyarite king was converted and three or four churches were built -- in Zafar, the capital of the Himyarite kingdom, in Aden, in Sana (a place half way between Nairam and Aden) and at Hormuz on the Persian Gulf. ...
• ) When the Persian king Kavadh I had to flee his country to Central Asia in AD 499, he met on the way a group of Christian missionaries -- a bishop, four presbyters and four laymen -- going to Central Asia to preach to the Turks. ...
• According to Hebraeus, at the beginning of the eleventh century, a king of the Keraits lost his way while hunting in the high mountains. ...

• The reference in question appears in chapter 36 of Movses' Book Two, in which (probably fanciful) information is provided about the birth of Sanatruk, a nephew of the famous king Abgar of Edessa (ruled ca. ...
• Abgar's sister, Awde, was traveling to Armenia in winter when she encountered a snowstorm in the mountains of Korduk'. ...
• The assumption behind these words appears to be that the naxarar woman Sanota Bagratuni-Artsruni and her husband Xoren Artsruni were raising Abgar's nephew together-very much like the later Caucasian "mother-nurse" and "father-nurse".

• A Coptic apocryphal document attributed to Bartholomew, as well as the apocryphal Gospel of Bartholomew , the Letter of Jesus to King Abgar, and the Gospel of Nicodemus describe the descent in nearly identical terms: .
• Hades, hearing the voice the second time, answered as if forsooth he did not know, and says: Who is this King of glory? The angels of the Lord say: The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. ... And the King of glory came in in the form of a man, and all the dark places of Hades were lighted up. ...
• 25 From a Syriac appendage to a letter from Jesus to King Abgar, in Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 1:13, in NPNF Series 2, 1:102. ...

• Thomas to Abgar, king of Edessa, and to have been martyred at Berytus. ...

• , that to "King Abgar," is an "imaginary occurrence," and states concerning the spurious letter from Christ: .
• forged the Letters between Abgar and Jesus, falsely declaring that he had found the original documents in the official archives, whence he had copied and translated them into his Ecclesiastical History. ...
• Again, this is not a historical event but part of the mythos and sacred king ritual, as Walker relates: .
• The Buddhists were influenced by the tradition of the Christian Gnostics, in that they knew Jesus, the prophet King, and felt that spiritually originates from within the individual and not necessarily from the hierarchy of the church. ...
• Update: Not content with hawking spurious Christian comic books, Colonel PT Kimball is now pretending to have found King Arthur's legendary sword, Excalibur, as was well as the stone it was stuck into! So much for his credibility. ...

• King Abgar even invited Jesus to visit his town. ... Judas converted the king and his subjects to Christianity and founded the church of Edessa.

• The large group of representations of the vera icon or the Holy Face have their roots in the Byzantine legend of King Abgar of Edessa. ...

• Jude healing King Abgar of Edessa in Mesopotamia. ... Jude healed the king of leprosy. ... From their preaching and healing the Apostles converted many in Babylonia, even the king himself. ...

• 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 person9 of his kingdom; and how He informed them that He would reveal Himself at the end of the ages10 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. ...
• 31 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,32 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,42 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,46 and Abubai, and Meherdath,47 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,48 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, who55 made the silks56 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,57 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. ...
• Moreover, Narses, the king of the Assyrians, when he heard of those same things which Addaeus the apostle had done, sent a message to Abgar the king: Either despatch to me the man who doeth these signs before thee, that I may see him and hear his word, or send me an account ofall that thou hast seen him do in thy own town. And Abgar wrote to Narses,61 and related to him the whole story of the deeds of Addaeus from the beginning to the end; and he left nothing which he did not write to him. ...
• Abgar the king, moreover, because he was not able to pass over into the territory of the Romans,62 and go to Palestine and slay the Jews for having crucified Christ, wrote a letter and sent it to Tiberius Caesar,63 writing in it thus:- .
• King Abgar to our Lord Tiberius Caesar: Although I know that nothing is hidden from thy Majesty, I write to inform thy dread and mighty Sovereignty that the Jews who are under thy dominion and dwell in the country of Palestine have assembled themselves together and crucified Christ, without any fault worthy of death, after He had done before them signs and wonders, and had shown them powerful mighty-works, so that He even raised the dead to life for them; and at the time that they crucified Him the sun became darkened and the earth also quaked, and all created things trembled and quaked, and, as if of themselves, at this deed the whole creation and the inhabitants of the creation shrank away. ...
• And Tiberius Caesar wrote and sent to King Abgar; and thus did he write to him:- .

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