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	CHURCH FATHERS: The Acts of Thaddaeus
		Abgarus enjoined Ananias to take accurate account of Christ, of what appearance He was, and His stature, and His hair, and in a word everything.
		And after the passion, and the resurrection, and the ascension, Thaddæus went to Abgarus; and having found him in health, he gave him an account of the incarnation of Christ, and baptized him, with all his house.
		And Thaddæus along with Abgarus destroyed idol-temples and built churches; ordained as bishop one of his disciples, and presbyters, and deacons, and gave them the rule of the psalmody and the holy liturgy.
	www.newadvent.org /fathers/0826.htm (969 words)

	Armenian Legends and Poems: Christ and Abgarus
		And Abgarus sent two of his notables unto him to show him the treaty of peace between Arshavr and his brother (for the Romans suspected that he had been to Persia to collect armies against them).
		And because His body was tormented with a painful disease contracted in the land of Persia seven years before, and he was not able to find any cure by men, he sent unto Him a letter asking Him to come and heal him of his disease.
		This letter did Anan the messenger bring unto Abgarus, with the Image of the Saviour, which remaineth in the city of Edessa until this day.
	www.sacred-texts.com /asia/alp/alp54.htm (719 words)

	Abgarus of Edessa article - Abgarus of Edessa Christian mythology Edessa icon iconoclast Jesus Christ Thaddeus - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Christian mythology the story of king Abgar of Edessa was an early tale of a wonder-working icon, set in the heart of the region where iconoclast tradition disapproved strongly of images in general and miraculous ones in particular, but which the legend connected directly with Jesus Christ.
		The historical Abgar V or Abgarus V of Edessa (4 B.C. and 13 A.D. - 50 A.D.) ruled the kingdom of osroene from his capital Edessa.
		Abgarus of Edessa article - Abgarus of Edessa definition - what means Abgarus of Edessa
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Abgarus_of_Edessa (1007 words)

	Chapter XIII
		And when Abgarus heard of the great and wonderful things which he did and of the cures which he performed, he began to suspect that he was the one of whom Jesus had written him, saying, `After I have been taken up I will send to thee one of my disciples who will heal thee.'
		When Abgarus saw it he prostrated himself before Thaddeus, while all those who stood about were astonished; for they did not see the vision, which appeared to Abgarus alone.
		And when he had done it, immediately Abgarus was cured of the disease and of the suffering which he had.
	www.angelfire.com /az3/upc/letter_to_jesus.html (1211 words)

	NPNF2-01. Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine \| Christian ...
		Abgarus was the name of several kings of Edessa, who reigned at various periods from b.c.
		And Abgarus said to him, So much have I believed in him that I wished to take an army and destroy those Jews who crucified him, had I not been deterred from it by reason of the dominion of the Romans.
		Abgarus therefore commanded the citizens to assemble early in the morning to hear the preaching of Thaddeus, and afterward he ordered gold and silver to be given him.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/npnf201.iii.vi.xiii.html?highlight=gnostics (2703 words)

	Abgarus King of Edessa and Jesus Christ
		For their genuineness, he appeals to the public registers and records of the City of Edessa in Mesopotamia, where Abgarus reigned, and where he affirms that he found them written, in the Syriac lauguage.
		The Rev. Jeremiah Jones observes, that the common people in England have this Epistle in their houses, in many places, fixed in a frame, with the picture of Christ before it; and that they generally, with much honesty and devotion, regard it as the word of God, and the genuine Epistle of Christ.
		ABGARUS, you are happy, forasmuch as you have believed on me, whom ye have not seen.
	www.angelfire.com /yt3/mxx/abgarus.htm (496 words)

	Image of Edessa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the legend, King Abgarus received the Image of Edessa from the apostle Thaddeus.
		According to Christian legend, the Image of Edessa, (known to Orthodox Christians as the Mandylion), was a holy relic consisting of a square or rectangle of cloth upon which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus was imprinted— the first icon ("image").
		John of Damascus (died 749) mentions the image in his anti-iconoclastic work On Holy Images [1], quoting a tradition that Abgarus had requested an image of Jesus and Jesus himself put a cloth to his face to produce the image.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Image_of_Edessa (802 words)

	Epistles of Jesus Christ and King Abgarus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		Abgarus, you are happy, forasmuch as you have believed on me, whom you have not seen.
	ministries.tliquest.net /theology/apocryphas/nt/abgarus.htm (585 words)

	Prince of Edessa
		When Abgarus saw it he prostrated himself before Thaddeus, while all those who stood about were astonished; for they did not see the vision, which appeared to Abgarus alone.
		And Abgarus said to him, "So much have I believed in him that I wished to take an army and destroy those Jews who crucified him, had I not been deterred from it by reason of the dominion of the Romans".
		Abgarus therefore commanded the citizens to assemble early in the morning to hear the preaching of Thaddeus, and afterward he ordered gold and silver to be given him.
	www.montanasat.net /rickv/PrinceEdessa.html (1421 words)

	The Golden Legend: The Lives of Saints Simon and Jude
		Abgarus the son of Euchania to Jesus, blessed Saviour, which appeareth in the places of Jerusalem, sendeth salutation.
		I have heard of thee, and that the healths and recoverings that thou makest and dost, be without medicines and herbs, and that thou makest the blind to see by thine only word, and the lame to go, the mesels to be cured and made whole, and the dead bodies to live again.
		And Abgarus said: I believe on him, verily, and those Jews that slew him, I would gladly slay them if it were possible to me, and had power, howbeit that the authority letteth it.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/golden296.htm (2936 words)

	Canon of the Old and New Testaments Ascertained, or The Bible Complete without the Apocrypha and Unwritten Traditions. ...
		Abgarus, supposing that this was the person whom Christ had, in his letter, promised to send to him, as soon as Thaddeus was introduced to him, perceiving something extraordinary in his countenance, fell down before him, at which his nobles were greatly surprised.
		The king having inquired whether he was the person sent by Christ, he answered, that on account of the faith of Christ he was sent, and assured him that all things should be according to his faith.
		Evagrius, in the latter end of the sixth century, appeals to this account of Procopius, and confirms the story that the city never should be taken by enemies, by a reference to some facts, particularly the failure of Chosroes to take the city, when he laid siege to it.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/alexander_a/canon.iv.xvi.html (3360 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		According to a legend recorded by Eusebius of Caesarea, King Abgarus of Edessa wrote to Jesus, asking him to come cure him of an illness.
		Some have suggested that this was to extend the assumed protection provided by the cloth to the whole city, or to hide it from persecutors of the Christian faith.
		The image is said to have surfaced in 525, during a flood of the Daisan, a tributary stream of the Euphrates, flooding the city of Edessa.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Mandylion (698 words)

	Homiletics Online
		In the writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers there’s a story of how The Mandylion Icon came to be: The fame of Jesus, the wonder worker and healer, had spread far beyond the lands of Judea, where he taught and worked and walked.
		The multitude of the wonders done by you has been heard of by me, that you heal the blind, the lame and the paralytic, and cure all the demoniacs; and on this account I entreat your goodness to come even to us, and escape from the plottings of the wicked authorities who hate you.
		Abgarus convinced Ananias to deliver the letter and, while in Judea, to take an accurate account of Jesus — his appearance, his stature, his hair and his words.
	www.homileticsonline.com /nonsubscriber/printer_friendly_installment.asp?installment_id=3163 (3572 words)

	THE EPISTLES OF JESUS CHRIST and ABGARUS KING OF EDESSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		CHAPTER I. A copy of a letter written by King Abgarus to Jesus; and sent to him by Ananius, his footman, to Jerusalem, 5 inviting him to Edessa.
		The answer of Jesus by Ananias the footman to Abgarus the king, 3 declining to visit Edessa.
		For their genuineness, he appeals to the public registers and records of the City of Edessa in Mesopotamia, where Abgarus reigned, and where he affirms that he found them written in the Syriac language.
	glorytoglory.info /book/forbidden/abgarus.html (606 words)

	Prince of Edessa
		When the report of him got abroad, it was told Abgarus that an apostle of Jesus was come, as he had written him.
		And immediately upon his entrance a great vision appeared to Abgarus in the countenance of the apostle Thaddeus.
		And Abgarus said to him, I too have believed in him and in his Father.
	www.biblefacts.org /church/edessa.html (1025 words)

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		You have written evidence of these things taken from the archives of Edessa,(207) which was at that time a royal city.
		Copy of an epistle written by Abgarus the ruler to Jesus, tend sent to him at Jerusalem by Ananias(209) the swift courier.
		20 Abgarus 20 therefore commanded the citizens to assemble early in the morning to hear the preaching of Thaddeus, and afterward he ordered gold and silver to be given him.
	bible.crosswalk.com /History/AD/EarlyChurchFathers/Post-Nicene/EusebiusPamphilus/view.cgi?file=npnf2-01-06.htm&size=20&start=62322 (5456 words)

	Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII
		And having received Ananias, and fallen down and adored the likeness, Abgarus was cured of his disease before Thaddaeus came.
		And after the passion, and the resurrection, and the ascension, Thaddaeus went to Abgarus; and having found him in health, he gave him an account of the incarnation of Christ, and baptized him, with all his house.
		And Thaddaeus along with Abgarus destroyed idol-temples and built churches; ordained as bishop one of his disciples, and presbyters, and deacons, and gave them the rule of the psalmody and the holy liturgy.
	www.godrules.net /library/fathers/anf08s103.htm (904 words)

	Blue Letter Bible - ISBE - Apocryphal Epistles
		The letter attributed to our Lord is given in Eusebius (Historia Ecclesiastica, I, 13) who records that in his day a copy of the letter was to be found among the archives of Edessa.
		Abgarus, king of Osroene, which was a small country in Mesopotamia, writes from Edessa, the capital, to our Lord, asking for healing and offering Him protection.
		Osroene was actually Christianized about the beginning of the 3rd century, and the legend took shape and received official sanction in order to show that the country had received the Gospel at a much earlier date.
	cf.blueletterbible.org /isbe/isbe.cfm?id=611 (529 words)

	Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hearing of Jesus' miracles, Abgarus wrote him a letter, as recorded by Eusebius: To Jesus called Christ, Abgarus the governor of the country of the Edessenes, an unworthy slave.
		Abgarus convinced a man named Ananias to take an accurate account of Jesus, his appearance, stature, hair, and words.
		Orthodox tradition claims that it was from this Towel of Edessa that the first ancient icon of Jesus, The Mandylion Icon, was later painted, which became a prototype for the faces of Jesus down through the centuries.
	www.trinitymemorial.org /rector/imagesofchrist.htm (784 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		There was a silent feeling of agreement manifest among them; their looks responded with that indefinable expression which always follows when a speaker has uttered the thought that has been slumbering in the hearts of his listeners.
		But Abgarus, the oldest and the one who loved him the best, lingered after the others had gone, and said, gravely: "My son, it may be that the light of truth is in this sign that has appeared in the skies, and then it will surely lead to the Prince and the mighty brightness.
		Then Abgarus went out of the azure chamber with its silver stars, and Artaban was left in solitude.
	www.thematthewshouseproject.com /religion/Xmas04/otherwiseman2.htm (1461 words)

	Prince of Edessa
		Not long afterward his promise was fulfilled. For after his resurrection from the dead and his ascent into heaven, Thomas, one of the twelve apostles, under divine impulse sent Thaddeus, who was also numbered among the seventy disciples of Christ, to Edessa, as a preacher and evangelist of the teaching of Christ.
		And having heard all these things concerning you, I have concluded that one of two things must be true: either you art God, and having come down from heaven you do these things, or else you, who do these things, art the Son of God.
		Abgarus therefore commanded the citizens to assemble early in the morning to hear the preaching of Thaddeus, and afterward he ordered gold and silver to be given him. But he refused to take it, saying, "If we have forsaken that which was our own, how shall we take that which is another's"?
	www.nku.edu /~longa/family/thad/PrinceEdessa.html (708 words)

	Abgar Saga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Copy of an epistle written by Abgarus the ruler to Jesus, tend sent to him at Jerusalem by Ananias the swift courier.
		And when Abgarus heard of the great and wonderful things which he did and of the cures which he performed, he began to suspect that he was the one of whom Jesus had written him, saying, `After I have been taken up I will send to thee one of my disciples who will heal thee.'
		20 Abgarus therefore commanded the citizens to assemble early in the morning to hear the preaching of Thaddeus, and afterward he ordered gold and silver to be given him.
	www.courses.drew.edu /fa2000/bibst-720s-001/abgar.html (1126 words)

	toweljesus
		Hearing of Jesus’; miracles, Abgarus wrote him a letter, as recorded by Eusebius [cf Eusebius Hist.
		To Jesus called Christ, Abgarus the governor of the country of the Edessenes, an unworthy slave.
		Abgarus convinced Ananias to deliver the letter and, while in Judea, to take an accurate account of Jesus—his appearance, his stature, his hair and his words.
	yarpc.tripod.com /toweljes.htm (2480 words)

	Herodians at Edessa & Adiabene
		Abgarus and Helen “brother and sister” as Abraham and Sarah 896
		Reign of Tigranes I & II parallels that of Abgarus
		Abgarus meaning “Great One”, the title of Osiris and of Abraham as a type of Osiris 908
	www.domainofman.com /forum/index.cgi?noframes;read=2580 (628 words)

	The Bible UFO Connection - Anomalies In The Apocryphal Books - The Epistles Of Jesus Christ And Abgarus, King Of Edessa
		For it is reported, that you cause the blind to see, the lame to walk, do both cleanse lepers, and cast out unclean spirits and devils, and restore them to health who have been long diseased, and raisest up the dead;
		On this account therefore I have wrote to you, earnestly to desire you would take the trouble of a journey hither, and cure a disease which I am under.
		As to that part of your letter, which relates to my giving you a visit, I must inform you, that I must fulfil all the ends of my mission in this country, and after that be received up again to him who sent me.
	www.bibleufo.com /anomlostbooks73.htm (435 words)

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