ابراهام الخوروسي
| Abraham of Cyrrhus | |
|---|---|
| قديس | |
| وُلِد | ح. 350 Cyrrhus |
| توفي | 422 القسطنطينية |
مكرّم في | الكنيسة الكاثوليكية (وخصوصاً الكنيسة المارونية) الكنيسة السريانية الأرثوذكسية |
| عيده | 14 فبراير |
القديس ابراهام (خوروس، سوريا، ح. 350 – القسطنطينية، 422) ويُعرف أيضاً بالأسماء أبرامس Abraames و ابراهام من خرِّس Abraham of Charres و ابراهام رسول لبنان[1] كان ناسكاً سورياً وأسقف حران.
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حياته
وُلِد ابراهام وتعلم في كارهاي (حران الحالية) في سوريا، ووعظ بالإنجيل في وادي جبل لبنان، حيث عاش ناسكاً. His life was described by Theodoret of Cyr (393-466 A.D.), the Bishop of Cyrrhus, who named him among the other thirty holy men and women in his book "Historia Religiosa" (Religious History).
He spent the first part of his life in the desert of Chalcis where he lived an ascetic life, he tried his body by fasting and still standing and was so exhausted that could not move.[2] But then he left for Lebanon as a merchant and helped the inhabitants of the village where he stayed to pay the taxes with the help of his friends. The name of the village is not known but it is believed to be Aqura- Afka. "It was probably located in Aqura near the river Adonis."[3] He was asked by the villagers to become their tutor and he accepted providing they would build the Christian church. He stayed in this village for three years as a priest and then returned to his ascetic life as a hermit.[4][5]
He was later elected bishop of Harran in Mesopotamia (Carrhae), where he worked vigorously to reduce the existing abuses. وتوفي في القسطنطينية في 422 بعد ذهابه هناك للقاء ثيودوسيوس الثاني, although some argue that it may have instead occurred in 390 under Theodosius II's predecessor, Theodosius I. His body was transferred back to Harran, to the city of Antioch where he was buried. His feast day هو 14 فبراير.
وحسب ألبان بتلر،
He was a holy solitary, who, going to preach to an idolatrous village on Mount Libanus, overcame the persecutions of the heathens by meekness and patience. When he had narrowly escaped death from their hands, he borrowed money, wherewith to satisfy the demands of the collectors of the public taxes, for their failure in which respect they were to be cast into prison; and by this charity he gained them all to Christ. After instructing them for three years, he left them in the care of a holy priest, and returned to his desert.
He was some time after ordained bishop of Carres, in Mesopotamia, which country he cleared of idolatry, dissensions, and other vices. He joined the recollection and penance of a monk with the labours of his functions, and died at Constantinople, in 422, having been sent for to court by Theodosius the Younger, and there treated with the greatest honour on account of his sanctity. That emperor kept one of his mean garments, and wore it himself on certain days, out of respect.[6]
المراجع
- ^ AbouZayd, S. Ihidayutha: A Study of the Life of Singleness in the Syrian Orient. From Ignatius of Antioch to Chalcedon 451 A.D. (Oxford, 1993), p. 119
- ^ Theodoret "Religious History", p. 120
- ^ AbouZayd, p. 304.
- ^ AbouZayd, S. Ihidayutha: A Study of the Life of Singleness in the Syrian Orient. From Ignatius of Antioch to Chalcedon 451 A.D. (Oxford, 1993), p.304
- ^ Theresa Urbainczyk, "Theodoret of Cyrrhus: The Bishop and the Holy Man", University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2002. p.74
- ^ Butler 1821, p. 154.
وصلات خارجية
- Butler, Alban (1821), "St. Abraames, Bishop of Carres", The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, II, https://books.google.com/books?id=MXgTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA154
- Holweck, F. G., A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.
- Abraham at Patron Saints Index
- St. Patrick's Church list of 14 February saints Archived 2019-12-29 at the Wayback Machine