Abda of Hira explained

Abda of Hira
Death Date:	680
Venerated In:	Assyrian Church of the East

Abda of Hira (died 680) was a monk of the Church of the East.

He was born at Al-Hirah, the son of Hanif.^[1] He became a monk under Mar Abda of Gamre. After having taught as a disciple by Mar Babai, he later lived in a cave. One of his miraculous actions was to have treated a wound of a hunter who had been injured by a lion with healing oil. He preached Christianity to the Zoroastrian Persians and was said to have performed many miracles before dying in his cave in 680.^[2]

Sources

• Book: Fowden, Elizabeth Key . 1999 . The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran . 121 . University of California Press, Ltd. . Los Angeles, USA .

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=LP4UAAAAQAAJ&q=Abda&pg=PA78 Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1924. p. 2
2. Book: Fowden, Elizabeth Key . The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran . 1999-11-30 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-21685-3 . en.