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    Ephrem the Syrian (/ˈiːfrəm, ˈɛfrəm/; c. 306 – 373), also known as Saint Ephrem, Saint Ephraim (/ˈiːfriəm/), Ephrem of Edessa or Aprem of Nisibis, was...
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    Church and Church of the East traditions. His feast day falls, together with 4th-century theologian and hymnographer St. Ephrem the Syrian, on January 28....
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  • Ephrem, one of the Hieromartyrs of Cherson (died c. 310) Saint Ephrem the Syrian (306–373) Ephrem Mtsire, Georgian monk (died 1101) Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum...
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    Medlycott 1905, Ch II Ephrem the Syrian, a doctor of Syriac Christianity, writes in the forty-second of his "Carmina Nisibina" that the Apostle was put to...
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    Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus and John Chrysostom, as well as Ephrem the Syrian, Isaac the Elder, Pope Leo I, John of Damascus, Cyril of Alexandria, Cyril...
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    of the School of Edessa.[citation needed] The school was founded in 350 in Nisibis. In 363, when Nisibis fell to the Persians, St. Ephrem the Syrian, accompanied...
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    Aphrahat witnesses to the concerns of the early church beyond the eastern boundaries of the Roman Empire. Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306 – 373) was a Syriac deacon...
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    The Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox Church (Turkish: İstanbul Mor Efrem Süryani Kadim Ortodoks Kilisesi, Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܕܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܩܕ̈ܡܝܐ ܐܪ̈ܬܕܘܟܣܝܐ...
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    as long ago as the 2nd century by the kings of the Abgar dynasty. In 363, Nisibis fell to the Persians, causing St. Ephrem the Syrian, accompanied by...
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  • June 9 – Ephrem the Syrian, Syrian Orthodox priest and saint (b. 306) Huan Wen (or Yuanzi), Chinese general and regent (b. 312) Nerses I (the Great), Armenian...
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  • Sebastian Brock (category Fellows of the British Academy)
    holding the PhD Honoris Causa at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. Brock has been awarded the Medal of Saint Ephrem the Syrian by the Syriac...
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    at the head of Mar Mattai Monastery near Mosul in what is now northern Iraq. He was a near contemporary to the slightly younger Ephrem the Syrian, but...
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    The Monastery of St. Ephrem the Syrian (Greek Ιερά Γυναικεία Κοινοβιακή Μονή Οσίου Εφραίμ του Σύρου), named after Ephraim the Syrian, was founded in 1983...
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    "The Prayer of Saint Ephrem" (Greek: Ἐὐχὴ τοῦ Ὁσίου Ἐφραίμ, Efchí toú Osíou Efrem), is a prayer attributed to Saint Ephrem the Syrian and used during the...
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    euchitēs, meaning the same. They are first mentioned in the 370s by Ephrem the Syrian, Epiphanius of Salamis, and Jerome, and are also mentioned by Archbishop...
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    Queen of the Sacraments: A Treatise on the Liturgy of the Holy Mass as Celebrated in the Syrian Orthodox Church. St. Mary's Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church...
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    traditions of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Syriac Orthodox Church, Aphrahat (c. 340) treated it as canonical and Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373) apparently...
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  • Aphrahat (ܐܦܪܗܛ,c. 280 – c. 345) Athanasius of Alexandria (296–373) Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306–373) Hilary of Poitiers (c. 310 – c. 367) Arnobius of Sicca...
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    historically meant a Syrian Christian such as Ephrem the Syrian. Following the declaration of Syria in 1936, the term "Syrian" came to designate citizens of that...
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    Syriac literature (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    homilies for the church in the Persian Empire, and Ephrem the Syrian, writing hymns, poetry and prose for the church just within the Roman Empire. The next two...
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    Jacob of Nisibis (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DCBL with Wikisource reference)
    Mesopotamia", and was the spiritual father of the renowned writer and theologian Saint Ephrem the Syrian. Saint Jacob was present at the first ecumenical council...
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    Diatessaron (category Books based on the Bible)
    [citation needed] and was quoted or alluded to by Syrian writers. Ephrem the Syrian wrote a commentary on it, the Syriac original of which was rediscovered only...
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    region and the population was 2,567 as of the Canadian census of 2011. It was named after Ephrem the Syrian. It incorporates the same colours as the French...
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    The Christianization of the Olympus region began relatively early. While the episcopal seats from Byzantine times only remaining ruins, inhabited and used...
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    India, including Ambrose of Milan, Gregory of Nazianzus, Jerome, and Ephrem the Syrian, while Eusebius of Caesarea records that Clement of Alexandria's teacher...
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    the weak. Sometimes Sirin was considered equivalent to the Wila. In Russian folklore, Sirin was mixed with the revered religious writer Saint Ephrem the...
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    4th-century theologian Ephrem the Syrian described a world in which divine creation instantly produced fully grown organisms: Although the grasses were only...
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    Polycarpus Augin Aydin (category Oriental Orthodoxy in the Netherlands)
    located at St. Ephrem the Syrian Monastery in Glane/Losser, the Netherlands. Edip Aydın, firstborn son of Shem'un and Nisani Aydın, was born in the village of...
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  • writers on the concept of the light of Christ include Ephrem the Syrian in the fourth century, Severus of Antioch in the sixth century, and the Quaker William...
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  • text attributed to the church father Ephrem the Syrian. Two distinct documents have survived — one in Syriac and one in Latin. The Syriac document focuses...
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