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    The Thirteen Assyrian Fathers (Georgian: ათცამმეტი ასურელი მამანი, romanized: attsammet'i asureli mamani) were, according to Georgian church tradition...
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    of Syria, he was a disciple of John of Zedazeni and one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers. He is mentioned in Bessarion's The Saints of Georgia. His feast...
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    has it the prominent 6th century monk David of Gareja of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers was accused by a woman of making her a pregnant in Tbilisi. David...
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  • manuscript" and the oldest surviving Ethiopian manuscript of any kind. Thirteen Assyrian Fathers Rukuni, Rugare; Oliver, Erna (January 2019). "Ethiopian Christianity:...
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    28 September, the feast day of St. Joseph of Alaverdi of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers, the 6th-century founder of the cathedral. Historically Alaverdoba...
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    Church of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers, Georgian Orthodox Church in village Dzveli Kanda Assyrians in Armenia Assyrians in Azerbaijan Assyrians in Russia...
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    involved in the Christianization of Iberia Thirteen Assyrian Fathers, among them Abibos of Nekresi, Assyrian missionaries, said to have arrived from Mesopotamia...
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    symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of...
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    complex was founded in the 6th century by David of Gareji, one of the thirteen Assyrian monks who arrived in the country at the same time. His disciples Dodo...
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    millennium BC until its gradual replacement in common use by Old Aramaic among Assyrians and Babylonians from the 8th century BC. Akkadian, which is the earliest...
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    is considered that the name “Martqopi” comes from one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers – Anton Martqopeli (martomkopeli in Georgian means someone who...
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    from Edessa in the 6th century, by Anton Martkopeli, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers. Rustaveli Giorgi, Bishop of Rustavi hid the treasured icon for...
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    (in the Thebaid) (4th century) Saint Pyrrhus of Breti, one of Thirteen Assyrian Fathers (6th century) Saint Barbarus the Myrrh-gusher of Greece (c. 820...
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  • founded in the 6th century by St. David Garejeli, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers who came to Georgia. The monasteries saw a golden age between...
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    is linked by historical tradition with St. Anton, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers. Most of the monastery's extant structures are from the 17th to...
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    started in Georgia in the 6th century, when Assyrian ascetic monks, known as the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers, settled in Iberia and founded a series of monasteries...
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    credited by historical tradition to the monk Stephen, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers active in the 6th century. The extant edifice, a domed church...
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    three-nave basilica, dedicated to St. David of Gareja, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers. It is inscribed on the list of the Immovable Cultural Monuments...
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    peripheral regions of Kartli. Sometime in the 530s or 540s, the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers arrived in Mtskheta, whose activities would result in the establishment...
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    this place was founded by the 6th-century monk Shio, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers who came to Georgia as Christian missionaries. St. Shio is said...
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    who was not contemporary with the northern kingdom of Israel, which the Assyrians had destroyed c. 720 BC, deporting much of its population. He re-instituted...
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    upsurge in monasticism in eastern Georgia, popularized by the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers, a group of monks who are credited by the medieval Georgian literary...
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    Monastery was founded in the middle of the VI century by one of the Assyrian holy fathers, Joseph Alaverdi (Ioseb Alaverdeli). At the beginning of the XI...
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    medieval Georgian literary tradition with Abibos, one of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers, a group of ascetics who popularized monasticism throughout the...
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    David of Gareji (category Desert Fathers)
    outside') (fl. 6th century) was an anchorite, desert father, wonderworker and one of the thirteen Assyrian apostles of the Kingdom of Iberia. He is venerated...
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    secured renown for himself during his father's reign, leading armies in the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire. At the Battle of Carchemish...
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    Shio of Mgvime (category Desert Fathers)
    Cave') (fl. 6th century) was an anchorite, desert father, thaumaturgus and one of the thirteen Assyrian apostles of the Georgian kingdom of Iberia. He is...
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    Cimmerians (category Articles containing Neo-Assyrian Akkadian-language text)
    written records, and most information about them is largely derived from Neo-Assyrian records of the 8th to 7th centuries BC and from Graeco-Roman authors from...
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    Bulmaisimisdze—with the monk Jesse from Antioch who came as part of the Thirteen Assyrian Fathers in Kartli around 545. It is maintained that Jesse's tomb is still...
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  • Library and Archives Canada. Fathers of Confederation. Collections Canada: Canadian Confederation. Canada History: Fathers of Confederation Archived 14...
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