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• According to legend King Abgar the Black, the second century Osroene ruler, wrote to Christ asking Jesus to cure him of an intolerable and incurable illness. Saint Thomas sent Addal to the court of King Abgar and Addal cured Abgar and converted the king and his people. ...

• Abgar.
• King of Armenia and ruler of Edessa (AD1-34). According to the Armenian tradition, he was converted by Apostle Thaddeus to become the first Christian king in history. Many researchers deny the historicity of an Armenian King Abgar and associate him with Abgar IX the Syrian who was indeed converted to Christianity in the late 2d century. ... The Greeks and Syrians, unable to articulate his name correctly, called him Abgar. ...

• The First Icon - The Story Of King Abgar.
• Abgar was the king of Edessa, a small country in the Middle East. ...
• But King Abgar had a terrible disease called leprosy, which was eating away at his body, and which could not be cured. ...
• So Abgar sent his servant Hannan with a letter to Jesus, asking him to come to Edessa. Hannan was a painter, so Abgar told him to paint a picture of Jesus and bring it back with his answer. ...
• "Well, at least I can sit here and paint a portrait of him for my king," he thought. ...
• Hannan explained about King Abgar's illness and handed over his letter. Jesus smiled kindly at Hannan, and wrote a reply to King Abgar, saying that he could not leave his work in his own country to travel to Edessa. But he promised that when his work was over he would send one of his disciples to the king.
• "Take this to your king as well", he said.
• He hurried back to Edessa, and when King Abgar received the portrait on the cloth his leprosy was cured.
• After Jesus' death and resurrection, his disciple Thaddeus came to Edessa and healed all the scars, just as Jesus had promised, and King Abgar became a Christian. ...
• Many years later Abgar's grandson became king. He was a pagan, so the bishop of Edessa walled up the portrait in the niche so that the king would not harm it, and it stayed there, hidden, for nearly 400 years. ...
• So how do we know today what Jesus looked like? There were no photographs in the time of King Abgar, but there were many painters who copied his icon very carefully. ...

• King Abgar V (the Black) of Edessa .
• (Syriac ABGAR UKOMO).
• I Century According to Eusebius and other sources, King Abgar corresponded with the Lord, inviting Him to live in Edessa. ... Thaddeus of the Seventy or another apostle is said to have brought the Gospel in full to Abgar's kingdom. ...
• The Abgar Dynasty in Chronological Order: A kinglist. ...
• The Letter of King Abgarus to Jesus, and Our Lord's Reply: Jones translation, ca. ...

• (Addeus, or Thaddeus) Mentioned in the Syriac document, "Doctrine of Addai," as one of the 72 disciples of Christ, who preached at Edessa, converting King Abgar V and a great number of his people. ... No doubt there were Christians in Edessa before the end of the 2nd century but its first Christian king as Abgar IX (179-214). ...

• King Mannos III Safalou of Osrhoene.
• King Abgar V Oukhama of Osrhoene.
• Children > King Mannos VI of Osrhoene <.

• (Armenian for Nameless) Son of King Abgar. ... At the same time, his cousin Sanatruk was crowned King of the Greater Armenia. Both Ananun and Sanatruk renounced Christianity adopted by King Abgar, and worshipped the ancient gods. ...

• Rhadamiste I K'UJISUNI (King) of IBERIA.
•  Child:         Pharamenses III K'UJISUNI (King) of IBERIA ___________________________________________________  /-- Kartam of IBERIA   +==&=> 80,& /-- Pharamenses I (King) of IBERIA /  \-- poss. ...   +==&=> 80,& /-- Mithridates (King) of IBERIA  (20? - 106?) /-- Amazaspus I (King) of IBERIA  (45? - 116?) /-- Pharamenses II K'UJISUNI of IBERIA  (70? - 132?) /  -- Rhadamiste I K'UJISUNI (King) of IBERIA \  /-- Meherdates (Prince) of ARMENIA  (? - 74?) \-- Ghadana (Ghadama)  (69? - ?) \   /-- Abgar V Oukhama of O.   +====> 1 | /-- Mannos VI (King) of OSRHOENE  (15 - 71) | /  \-- Shalmath of OSRHOENE   +====> 1 \-- Awde (Princess) of OSRHOENE \  /-- Izates II (King) of ADIABENE \-- (NN; Princess) of ADIABENE \-- poss. ...
•   His 4(+)-Great Grandchildren:        Narseh (King) of ARMENIA   ;   Fausta   ;   (Miss) ARSHAKUNI   ;   Tiridates IV (King) of ARMENIA .

• AD 400, is a Syriac account of King Abgar of Edessa (ostensibly Abgar V who ruled from 4 BC - 7AD and again from 13-50 AD) and his contact with Jesus. Upon hearing from his servants that the Messiah was performing healings in Palestine, Abgar sends a letter to Jesus inviting him to come to Edessa to heal a certain illness that he has and to find refuge from the hostility of the Jews. Jesus receives the letter and sends word back to Abgar that His work here is finished and that he is ready to return to His heavenly Father. ... Addai comes to Edessa, heals Abgar, and establishes the church there. ...
• The Abgar legend was very popular in the early church, especially the story about the exchange of correspondence between Jesus and Abgar. ... 325 AD in Eusebius who says that Jesus upon receiving the letter of Abgar wrote a letter in reply. ... Addai says simply that Jesus sent a reply by Hanan, Abgar's archivest. ...

• Sanatruk, King of Armenia,.
• Among them was a copy of a letter which Abgar Uchama wrote to Jesus, and Jesus' reply. ...
• See Abgar V Uchama. ...
• Chahin we also know that King Abgars messenger not only returned with the letter quoted by Eusebius, but also brought with him a portrait of Jesus. Abgar is said to have had a nephew named Sanatruk, "king of another province in Great Armenia", who converted to Christianity when he was visited by Thaddeus, but later recanted and had Thaddeus murdered on the slopes of Mount Ararat. ...
• In Armenia, Thaddeus met with the Armenian King Abgar, who reigned in the city of Edessa from 1 B. ... King Abgar had contracted a grave illness during his travels to the East. ... A delegation headed by the king's emissary Anan delivered the letter to Jerusalem, where it was received by the Apostle Thomas. ...
• King Abgar's letter received its response after the resurrection and Pentecost with the mission of Thaddeus to Armenia. ...

• According to Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History (13, 5-32) and the Syriac document called the Doctrine of Addai, Blessed King Abgar V Ukkama of Edessa having heard that the High Priests were plotting against Our Lord, invited him to his kingdom where he would have peace and security. ... Our Lord dictated His reply to Hanan the king's messenger and scribe: He declined the king's invitation to Edessa but promised to send him one of His disciples to heal his disease. ... ) Saint Thomas the Apostle appointed Saint Addai, (feast 1 October) one of the 72 disciples, to convert Edessa and accomplish Our Lord's promise to heal the king. ...
• King Abgar IX of Edessa (179-212 AD) renounced the official religion of the Parthian empire, converted to the Faith, was baptised in 206 AD and thus became the world's first Christian sovereign of a state. ...

• Also known as The Abgar Legend  .
• It concerns the founding of a Christian church in Edessa as a result of a letter from King Abgar the Black to Jesus, and the Savior's reply. ...
• Here is a copy of the the letter from King Abgar of Edessa to Jesus, delivered by Ananias to Jerusalem:.
• From Abgar Uchama the King to Jesus the good Savior in Jerusalem, greetings! I have heard about you, and your ability to heal without the benefit of drugs or herbs. ...
• After the fulfillment of this prophesy, he appeared to Thaddeus, his disciple, and sent him to Edessa, where King Abgar was healed of his affliction, and many came to know of the power of the risen Lord through the disciple. ...

•   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 at Jerusalem by Ananias, his footman, 5. ...
• Abgarus, king of Edessa, to Jesus the good Savior, who appears at Jerusalem, greeting. ...
• The answer of Jesus by Ananias the footman to Abgarus the king, 3. ...
• Thomas to Edessa in response to King Abgar V's personal petition to Jesus Christ, who had promised to send one of his disciples to him. After a miraculous healing of the king, the entire royal family and many of the nobles were baptized, including some of the pagan who were called chief priests; the city's main altars to the gods Bel and Nabu were destroyed, and a church built. ...
• " However, the non-believer King Abgar VI persecuted the bishop Aggai, who became the Edessene church's first martyr. ...
• Nevertheless, King Abgar VIII, who mounted the throne in A. ...

• King Trajan had Edessa destroyed and removed king Abgar VII 188 A. D, but King Hadrian did let the domestic Aramean people recover the land. ... C), Abgar XI was removed from the throne and Osrhoene became a Roman province. Abgar XI was the last king of the Arameans. The events considering king Abgar V of Oshroene and his correspondence with Jesus has a central meaning for the Syriacs (Arameans) linguisticly as well as historically and religious. Abgar IX (179-214) had accepted Christianity and aided Eddesa to become one of the most important sees of the Syriac Christians. ...
• Osroene was an Assyrian kingdom, it was founded by the ten Assyrian generals who were the successors of the Assyrian King Ashur Uballit II. ... Later his son Caracalla invited the last Assyrian king of Osroene King Abgar XI to Rome and executed him there. ...

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• Abgar VI King of Osrhoene.
• Mannos VI King of Osrhoene.
• Abgar VI King of Osrhoene.
• Mannos VI King of Osrhoene.
• Abgar V Oukhama King of Osrhoene.
• Izates II King of Adiabene.
• Mannos III Safalou King of Osrhoene.
• Monobazos I King of Adiabene.
• Abinerglos King of Characene.

• Religion and Rulership: The Cosmic Dimension The Legend of Abgar of Edessa and the Changing Ideal of Christian Kingship .
• ing Abgar the Black was a sick man and no doctor on earth was able to heal him. He heard of the ministry of Jesus and sent him a letter, saying: "Good physician, come to me and heal me!" Jesus did not accept the invitation, but after his ascension into heaven he sent one of his disciples, who healed the king. Abgar became a Christian and his city, Edessa, on the site of which is built the modern Turkish town of Sanliurfa, prided itself on having being Christian since the time of Christ. It was called "the Blessed" on account of the fact that Jesus sent a message to Abgar saying: "You are Blessed because you have believed in me without having seen me. ... A Jesuit at the court of the Moghul Khan Akbar translated Eusebius's story into Persian, assimilating King Abgar's name to that of his patron! The story was retold by Moses of Khoren in such a way as to link the Armenian royal family with King Abgar. ... More interesting, for the purpose of this workshop, is the fact that the legend of King Abgar "the Black" must have originated in, or shortly after, the time of King Abgar VIII "the Great. ... Whether King Abgar the Great was himself a Christian, or not-for this is still disputed-he had to defend himself, on the occasion of the flood of A. ... One may speculate as to the original form of the legend of King Abgar the Black and the legitimating function it may have had for King Abgar the Great. ...

• Called "Acheiropoietos", meaning: "Not made by human hand", this icon, according to Nicephore Caliste, is the copy of the original picture sent by Christ Himself to the King Abgar V Oukhama, the Prince of Osroeme, which capital was Edesse. King Abgar V, being leprous, asked his archivist Hannan to bring Christ to him. ... When King Abgar saw the Mandylion he was cured.

• This modern Greek icon is called the Holy Napkin because it is patterned after the very first icon which Tradition tells us was made by Jesus Christ himself when approached by the court artist of the neighboring King Abgar of Edessa, a city state kingdom near Israel at the time of the Lord’s three years ministry on earth. Unable to adequately express what the Lord of life looked like, this artist was in a dilemma for he had been sent by his master and king to bring back a portrait, as King Abgar felt that if could just see His Face, he would be healed of the leprosy which was consuming him. This just king also offered a place of refuge to Christ if He wished to escape the persecution which was raging now around Him near the end of His work, but Christ went on towards His voluntary death and Resurrection to complete the work which the Father had given Him to accomplish when on earth.
• This icon or Holy Napkin was sent to Edessa, and healed the King of his affliction, and later an apostle was sent to him to complete this healing process and baptize him and his subjects into the Christian Church. ...

• Left: King Abgar of Syria holding the cloth bearing the face of Christ. ...
• Another famous image on cloth of Christ is detailed in an old folk story of the Eastern Church, which goes way back, concerning King Abgar of Syria, a contemporary of Jesus. King Abgar (see picture above) suffered from leprosy, and he sent a delegation to Jesus requesting him to come to Syria. ...
• Jesus wasn't able to go to see the King, because he was on his final journey to Jerusalem. But when he noticed the artist failing to make a good likeness of him, he washed his face in water and miraculously imprinted a cloth with the image of his face, which was sent to the king.

• Abgar V Uchama, King of Osrhoene, .
• Among them was a copy of a letter which Abgar Uchama wrote to Jesus, and Jesus' reply. Abgar had in his kingdom (in today's northern Syria/southern Turkey) heard of the remarkable cures which Jesus was said to have performed in Jerusalem and asked Jesus to come to him and cure a disorder from which he suffered. ... Eusebius also tells us that a third document was added to the letters which tells how the disciple named Thaddeus (in Mark 3, 18, but called Lebbeus in Matthew 10,3 or Judas, son of Jakob, in Luke 6, 16 and Acts 1,13) came to Abgar, cured him of his disorder, and was permitted to preach to the citizens of the city. ...

• In the year five hundred and thirteen, (1) during the reign of the Emperor Septimus Severus and during the reign of king Abgar, son of king Ma'nu. During the month of the latter Teshrin, (November) the springs of water increased that went out near the great palace of king Abgar the Great, and rose up with great strength. ...
• And as soon as my lord Abgar the king saw, he got up and went to a safe place upon the mountain which is above his palace where the servants sat and they dwelt, the servants of his kingdom. ...
• 5 And Abgar the king whilst he was standing in a tall tower that was called “the Persian” he saw the water with the aid of burning lamps, and he commanded. ... And the water entered the city and pressed against the great and fair palace of my lord the king. ...
• 14 And when king Abgar he was watching this harm, he commanded that all the artisans of the city will remove their arches far above from the river and that men will not build their arches lower, near the river. ...
• 20 And Abgar the king issued a command to all of those that sit in the market and they laboured against the river. ...
• They shall requite him for negligence that wronged the command of the king. ...
• 4 Our lord, Abgar the king, commanded. ... And also those, his own attendants, they built for themselves a building for their dwelling in the same neighbourhood where the king was, in the high street that was called 'Lunar Place' (4).
• And because the former calm of the city was established, Abgar the king decreed: And so were canceled debts that were levied from the in-gathering of the city. ...
• The king mentioned was Abgar IX. ...

• Macedonia: Ruled by Alexander VII Helios Severus of Macedonia, this king has strong ties to the Ptolemies of Egypt and also to the King of Thrace. ... Now aged 36, Alexander is in the prime of life and is married to Cleopatra Thea of Cyprus, cousin of the King of Egypt. ... Macedonia's army relies on the phalanx, with several contigents of light infantry and a little cavalry, reputedly the bodyguard of the King.
• Alexander VII is a descendant of the last independent King of Macedonia, King Perseus who was defeated by the Romans in 167 BC, and taken to Rome, by Lucius Aemilius Paullus where he starved himself to death in a dungeon. ...
• Eventually the Romans who were hardpressed elsewhere was forced to conceded defeat to this Andriscus who was found to be none other than Philip Severus the son of King Perseus (now dead) and former Roman senator. The Romans recognised Philip as Philip VI King of Macedonia where as a token of his strange life he offically adopted not only Severus but also the name Andriscus.
• Amyntas' second wife was Laodice of Syria daughter of Antiochus VII Euergetes Sidetes King of Syria. ...
• Alexander VI who was also King of Thrace died without heirs, Antipater II King of Macedonia and Thrace left four young sons Cassander, Philip, Iollas and Nicanor who were considered too young to succeed either to Thrace or Macedonia. ... By Berenice of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy X, his mother's cousin, he was the father of two sons, King Alexander VII Helios Severus Andriscus, and Ptolemy Ceraunus "the Thunderbolt" By his second wife Stratonice of Commagene the daughter of Mithradates I of Commagene who died in 69 BC, he was the father of Hephaiston and Philip Pericles. ... King Alexander VII by his wife Cleopatra of Cyprus has five children, Philip Osiris, Eurydice Isis, Heracles Atlas, and the twins Alexander Helios the Younger and Cleopatra Selene.
• His father Lysimachus III was the half-brother of Alexander VI and Antipater II, former Kings of Macedonia and Thrace, therefore making Lysimachus the half-uncle of the present King. ...
• King Agathocles of Thrace. ...
• Commagene: Antiochus Theos King of Commagene aged 44 is the King of a small country sandwiched between Roman Syria and Parthia. ...
• Pontus: Pharnaces II King of Pontus is one of the many sons of the famous enemy of Rome Mithradates the Great of Pontus. ...
• Colchis: In 106 the King of Colchis (a small gold-rich country on the eastern end of the Euxine Sea) died, leaving a daughter Medea as his princpal heir. Mithradates of Pontus invaded the small kingdom and married Medea to his eldest son Mithradates Chrestus, who was installed as titular King of Colchis, in effect viceroy of Colchis. When King Mithradates in 83 BC was forced to sue for peace with the Romans, the natives of Colchis rebelled. ...

• Feast of Mid-Lent/King Abgar .
• Eusebius tells that he visited the archives of Edessa and examined a correspondence between the city's king, Abgar Ukomo, and no other than Jesus Himself. At Mid Lent, the Syriac Orthodox Church commemorates King Abgar who, according to this story, was the first king to adopt Christianity, and thus Edessa became the first Christian kingdom.
• Here is the correspondence between King Abgar and Christ:.
• "Abgar Ukomo, the toparch, to Jesus the good Savior who has appeared in the district of Jerusalem, greetings. ...
• The story continues telling how one of the Seventy disciples was sent to King Abgar.

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