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• As for the history of icons… Eusebius actually records that Jesus did make an icon by pressing his face against a cloth and leaving his impression on it, and sent it to King Abgar of Edessa. ...

• The town is attacked with siege engines (bottom) and king Abgar surrenders (central scene). ...

• Another Syriac fragment in this collection, "The Teaching of Addaeus the Apostle," who healed and converted King Abgar of Edessa in Armenia, tells us about his co-workers in the successful evangelistic campaign in that region. ... for whatsoever they said to others and enjoined on them, they themselves exhibited in practice in their own persons; and the hearers, who saw that their actions went along with their words, without much persuasion became their disciples, and confessed the King Christ, praising God for having turned them towards Him. ...
• Coins with her bust, name and title show that she was the queen regent of Pontus when her young son became king. ...

•   KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)".
• And Abgar was astonished and marvelled, because, like as he had heard about Jesus, how He wrought and healed, so Thaddeus 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 Thaddeus 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, the daughter of Meherdath, Abgar's wife, 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 of his kingdom; and how He informed them that He would reveal Himself at the end of the ages and at the onsummation 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.
• 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, and to understand that, whosoever worshippeth creatures, the wrath of justice will overtake him.
• And when Thaddeus 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, his Tabularius, about Christ, so had he seen the wonderful mighty-works which Thaddeus 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, and Abubai, and Meherdath, 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, and confessing the Gospel of Christ. ...
• But neither did King Abgar nor yet the Apostle Thaddeus 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 made the silks and headbands of the king, and Palut, and Barshelama, and Barsamya, together with the others their companions, clave to Thaddeus 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, 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 Thaddeus 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 Thaddeus 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 of all that thou hast seen him do in thy own town. And Abgar wrote to Narses, and related to him the whole story of the deeds of Thaddeus 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, and go to Palestine and slay the Jews for having crucified Christ, wrote a letter and sent it to Tiberius Caesar, 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.

• In this story, King Abgar of Edessa sent a letter to Jesus Christ during Jesus' public activities in Gallilee, asking Jesus to come and heal him of leprosy. Instead, Jesus took a linen cloth and pressed it against his own face, leaving the imprint of his face on the cloth, and sent it back to the king. ...

• A tradition links him to the story of King Abgar of Edessa, who sent an emissary to Jesus to ask to be healed. ...

• The connection of the King Abgar VIII of Edessa with the Christian religion was the element that made Edessa the most important Christian center of the Parthian Empire (21).
• This gradual development and process was maintained until the defeat and the fall of the last Arsacid King, Ardavan V, by Ardashir I, the founder of the Sassanian dynasty, in Hormuzdgan (224 A. ...
• (21) According to the coinage of Abgar VIII (180-192), the symbol of the cross is remarkable appeared on his head-cover, a proof of the adoption of the Christian religion and tuition. ...

• Just under the level of the dome, between three blocked windows, there are remains of paintings of Constantine the Great and king Abgar of Edessa as his counterpart. ... The fact that Abgar is represented as a counterpart of Constantine underlines his position as the first monarch in the Syrian region to embrace Christianity. ...
• Under the painting of Abgar, on the left part of the wall and also on layer 3, but painted slightly later, there is an elaborate painting of the Dormition of the Virgin. ...

• 13), extracted, as he says, by him from the archives of Edessa relating to Abgar and translated from Syriac word for word:.

• The painting "Christ visited by King Abgar’s messngers " by Alessandro Tiarini regarded to be lost until now came from the famous E. ...

• by Armenian King Abgar.
• THE ANSWER OF JESUS, TO KING ABGAR, .
• Blessed art thou, O Agbarus (Abgarus, Abgar, Awgar), who, without seeing, has believed in me. ...
• BY KING ABGAR, TO JESUS, AND SENT TO HIM, AT JERUSALEM, .
• Agbarus (Abgarus, Abgar, Awgar), prince of Edessa, sends greeting to Jesus the excellent Savior, who has appeared in the borders of Jerusalem. ...

•   According to another legend, Jesus himself gave and "image of His sacred face," called the Icon Made Without Hands ("Nerukotvorennyj Obraz"), to the Apostle Thaddeus, who used it for miraculous healing and the conversion of the Chaldean King Abgar of Edessa (cf. ...

• During the Apostolic Age, the Ashurai adopted Christianity as a whole when their king Abgar was cured of leprosy by two disciples of Jesus. ...

• He gives us the text of a correspondence between the city's king, Abgar Ukomo, and none other than Jesus Himself: Abgar Ukomo, the toparch, to Jesus the good Savior who has appeared in the district of Jerusalem, greetings. ...
• The story continues to describe how one of the Seventy disciples was sent to King Abgar. ...

• Gordian III and Abgar X. ... Laureate bust right / Bust of Abgar right, wearing tiara. ...
• Laureate bust right, star to right in field / King Abgar in Tiara. ...
• The Kingdom of Edessa, Abgar X, 242-243 AD. ... , star before / Draped bust of Abgar right, bearded, wearing a diadedemed tiara, star behind. ...
• Gordian III & Abgar X Phraates Æ 33mm of Edessa, Mesopotamia. Laureate bust right / Gordian seated right, receiving Nike from Abgar standing left. ...
• Gordian III & Abgar X Æ 35mm of Edessa in Mesopotamia. Laureate, and draped bust right / Gordian seated on curule chair, holding sceptre, receiving Nike from Abgar. ...

• He came preaching the Gospel to Edessa and he converted King Abgar, the people and the pagan priests to Christ. He backed up his preaching with many miracles (about which Abgar wrote to the Assyrian emperor Nerses). ...
• Prince Abgar wanted to reward St. ...

• ABGAR UCHAMA THE TOPARCH King of Armenia from 5 B. ...
• MANNOS VI King of Osrhoene from 57 A. ...
• - MANNOS III SAFELOU King of Osrhoene from 34 B. ...  -- Unknown - Unknown - - Unknown - Unknown - Unknown - - Unknown - ABGAR UCHAMA THE TOPARCH King of Armenia from 5 B. ...

• 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. ...
• Long Live Christ the King! Long Live the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of God!") .

• YOOMAA D AAVGAARR - - - - the day of King Abgar Okoomaa (the black one). ...
• December 20 is the day we commemorate our first Chirstian King, King Aavgaar Okhooma V (son of Mano). He was an Ashuree king of Edessa (a city/state in modern day northern Syria) around 32 A. ...
• celebrate this day to honor the first Christian Assyrian king, Melka Aavgaarr. ...

• Second is that the group of people under the leadership of Knayi Thoma was sent to Kerala by King Abgar of Uraha. But there is no historical evidence which could prove that King Abgar ruled over Uraha at that time. ...

• This was the city of King Abgar asked for Christ help during a plea.
• Sardis was the capital city of King Croesus who was considered as the richest man on earth in the ancient times. ...
• The city of brotherly love, Philadelphia, was founded by Pergamon king Attalos II for his brother. ...
• Founded by Attalos, Pergamon King, Attalia was the major harbor for Pamphilia region. ...

• And he related before Abgar the king, and before his princes and his nobles, and before Augustin, Abgar's mother, and before .
• Shalmath, the daughter of Meherdath, Abgar's wife, the signs of our Lord, and His wonders, and the glorious mighty-works .
• same time that He was received up — by which same power it was that he had healed Abgar, and Abdu son of Abdu, the .
• They, when God so said, received the sonship, which before they had not: but He was not begotten to be other than He was before; but was begotten from the beginning Son of the Father, being above all beginning and all ages, Son of the Father, in all things like to Him who begot Him, eternal of a Father eternal, Life of Life begotten, and Light of Light, and Truth of Truth, and Wisdom of the Wise, and King of King, and God of God, and Power of Power. ...

• Did King David foretell the Shroud 1000 years before Christ?.
• This Face of Edessa, with the entire Shroud folded behind it, was the very gift sent to King Abgar of Edessa. ...
• Prior to His crucifixion, and in answer to a pleading letter for healing of leprosy from King Abgar of Edessa, Jesus promised, by a letter in response, that He would send a gift of healing to him. ...
• 10th century painting of King Abgar of Edessa receiving the healing "gift" of Jesus.
• In relation to the death and Resurrection of the coming Messiah, these Psalms were special! In the prophetic (end time) 60th Psalm, King David declares:.

• correspondence between the city's king, Abgar Ukomo, and none other than Jesus Himself: .
•      Abgar Ukomo, the toparch, to Jesus the good Savior who has appeared in the .
• The story continues to describe how one of the Seventy disciples was sent to King Abgar. ...

• IN the fifteenth year of the Sovereign Ruler Trajan Caesar, and in the third year of King Abgar the Seventh, which is the year 416 of the kingdom of Alexander king of the Greeks, and in the priesthood of Sharbil and Barsamya, Trajan Caesar commanded the governors of the countries under his dominion that sacrifices and libations should be increased in all the cities of their administration, and that those who did not sacrifice should be seized and delivered over to stripes, and to the tearing of combs, and to bitter inflictions of all kinds of tortures, and should afterwards receive the punishment of the sword. ...
• And Abgar the king, son of the gods, was standing at the head of the people. ...
• And, while these things were being done by the command of the king, Barsamya, the bishop of the Christians, went up to Sharbil, he and Tiridath the elder and Shalula the deacon; and he said to Sharbil, the high priest: The King Christ, to whom belong heaven and earth, will demand an account at thy hands of all these souls against whom thou art sinning, and whom thou art misleading, and turning away from the God of verity and of truth to idols that are made and deceitful, which are not able to do anything with their hands--moreover also thou hast no pity on thine own soul, which is destitute of the true life of God; and thou declarest to this people that the dumb idols talk with thee; and, as if thou wert listening to something from them, thou puttest thine ear near to one and another of them, and sayest to this people: The god Nebu bade me say to you," On account of your sacrifices and oblations I cause peace in this your country;" and: Bel saith, "I cause great plenty in your land;" and those who hear this from thee do not discern that thou art greatly deceiving them--because "they have a mouth and speak not, and they have eyes and see not with them;" it is ye who bear up them, and not they who bear up you, as ye suppose; and it is ye who set tables before them, and not .
• Abgar the king also, who was older than this .
• Abgar, who himself worshippeth idols as well as thou, he too believed in the .
• King Christ, the Son of Him whom thou callest Lord of all the gods. ...
• They all said to Sharbil: Henceforth we also renounce that which thou hast renounced, and we confess the King Christ, whom thou hast confessed. ...
• Sharbil said: I too, on my part, am not content that thou shouldest look upon me as formerly, wheel I worshipped gods made with hands; but look thou upon me to-day and question me as a Christian man renouncing idols and confessing the King Christ. ...
• Sharbil said: Of the King of kings I am afraid, but at any king of earth I tremble not, nor yet at thy threats towards me, which lo! thou utterest against the worshippers of Christ: whom I confessed yesterday, and lo! I am brought to trial for His sake to-day, like as He Himself was brought to trial for the sake of sinners like .
• renounced; nor will I renounce the King Christ, whom I have confessed. ...
• On the contrary, I confess one God, who made the heavens, and the earth, and the seas, and all that is therein; and the Son who is from Him, the King Christ. ...
• Sharbil said: Death on account of this is true life: those who confess the King Christ, He also will confess before His glorious Father. ...
• Sharbil said: The kings of this world are conscious of this world only; but the King of all kings, He hath revealed and shown to us that there is another world, and a judgment in reserve, in which a recompense will be made, on the one hand to those who have served God, and on the other to those who have not served Him nor confessed Him. ...
• And the pagans also cried out and said to him: We renounce idols and carved images, which are of no use, and we believe in Jesus the King, the Son of God, who has come and is to come again. ...

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