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	Abgarus of Edessa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abgar V or Abgarus V of Edessa (4 BC - AD 7 and AD 13 - 50) is a historical ruler of the kingdom of Osroene, holding his capital at Edessa.
		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 this icon-legitimizing legend connected directly with Jesus.
		John of Damascus, the leading architect of the church dogma favoring icons, specifically mentions that Jesus "is said to have taken a piece of cloth and pressed it to his face, impressing on it the image of his face, which it keeps to this day" (On the Divine Images I).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abgarus_of_Edessa (1121 words)

	Image of Edessa
		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.
		After the king's death, the cloth might have been hidden in the city walls for protection as early as the reign of Manu VI, Abgar´s second son, who is thought to have reverted to paganism.
		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.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/i/im/image_of_edessa.html (397 words)

	abgarus of edessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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, now in eastern Turkey, at the same time (!) of Jesus Christ.
		In yet another form of the story, derived from Moses of Chorene's mid-5th century History of the Armenians, it is said further that Jesus sent his portrait to Abgar, and that this portrait was preserved in Edessa.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Abgarus_of_Edessa.html (1014 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)

	Encyclopedia: Abgarus of Edessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to the legend, King Abgarus received the Image of Edessa from the apostle Thaddeus.
		Edessa is the historical name of a town in northern Mesopotamia.
		A myth is a story with deep explanatory or symbolic significance, and thus, without addressing any issues of core beliefs of Christianity, Christian mythology is therefore a body of stories that explains or symbolizes Christian beliefs.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Abgarus-of-Edessa (1940 words)

	Epistles of Jesus Christ and King Abgarus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Abgarus, you are happy, forasmuch as you have believed on me, whom you have not seen.
		Peter, Thomas, and Bartholomew visited and preached in Edessa, but the "founder" of the Edessene ecclesia was St. Thaddeus (known as St. Addai by the local Syriac-speaking Christians), as apostle "of the Seventy" and disciple of St. Thomas.
		Thus, as the capital of the "first Christian kingdom" of Osrhoene, Edessa came to be known as "the blessed city." However, the non-believer King Abgar VI persecuted the bishop Aggai, who became the Edessene church's first martyr.
	ministries.tliquest.net /theology/apocryphas/nt/abgarus.htm (585 words)

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		According to Eusebius of Caesarea, King Abgarus of Edessa wrote to Jesus in 30 AD, asking him to come cure him of an illness.
		The cloth is said to have surfaced 525, during a flood of the Daisan, a tributary stream of the Euphrates, flooding the city of Edessa.
		In 944 - for liberation of Muslim prisoners - it was taken from Edessa to Constantinople under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Romanus I, remaining there until the Crusaders sacked the city in 1204 and carried its treasures to western Europe.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/s/sh/shroud_of_turin.html (1388 words)

	Icon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In this story, Abgarus of Edessa sent a letter to Jesus Christ at Jerusalem, asking Jesus to come and heal him of his sickness.
		The true image at Edessa gave the generic name for a Veronica in the West.
		This cloth reportedly remained in Edessa until the 10th century, when it was taken to Constantinople.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/i/ic/icon.html (762 words)

	Saint Jude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Legend claims that he visited Beirut and Edessa and was possibly martyred with Saint Simon in Persia.
		Jude is traditionally depicted carrying the image of Jesus in his hand or close to his chest, betokening the legend of the Image of Edessa, recorded in apocryphal correspondence between Jesus and Abgarus which is reproduced in Eusebius' History.
		According to it, King Abgar of Edessa (a city located in what is now southeast Turkey) sent a letter to Jesus to cure him of leprosy and sent an artist to bring him a drawing of Jesus.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Saint_Jude (1461 words)

	Image of Edessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 an image of the face of Jesus was imprinted.
		The image is next said to have surfaced in 525, during a flood of the Daisan, a tributary stream of the Euphrates.
		If the image was truly brought to Edessa in the first century, it might well have been hidden during the reign of Abgarus' son Ma'nu VI, who is thought to have reverted to paganism.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/I/Image-of-Edessa.htm (703 words)

	Abgarus of Edessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Christian mythology the story of king Abgar of Edessa was an early tale of a icon set in the heart of the where iconoclast tradition disapproved strongly of images in and miraculous ones in particular but which legend connected directly with Jesus Christ.
		The historical Abgar V or Abgarus V of Edessa (4 B.C. and A.D. - 50 A.D.) ruled the kingdom Osroene from his capital Edessa now in eastern Turkey at the time (!) of Jesus Christ.
		He had charged to paint a portrait of Jesus and brought back to Edessa an icon came an object of general veneration but after a while was said to have painted by Jesus himself.
	www.freeglossary.com /Abgarus_of_Edessa (1185 words)

	Abgarus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to church tradition, the Syrian church at Edessa was founded after King Abgar had written a letter to Jesus requesting a healing and the Lord responded in writing that an apostle would be sent following his ascension.
		He obtained copies of the letters from the church at Edessa in Mesopotamia, which were written in the Syriac language.
		The letters may form some insight into the ministry of Thaddeus, how the church at Edessa was formed and the conversion of her people.
	www.latter-rain.com /ltrain/abgarus.htm (664 words)

	Larry Sermon - 2-3-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Across the Euphrates River, in the city of Edessa — believed to be the modern southeastern Anatolian city of Sanliurfa in Turkey — lived a governor named Abgarus who suffered from an incurable disease that neither herbs nor doctors could heal.
		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.
		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.gbgm-umc.org /sunlakes/sermons/archive/4-11-2003.html (1336 words)

	The Bible UFO Connection - Anomalies In The Apocryphal Books - The Epistles Of Jesus Christ And Abgarus, King Of Edessa
		In the 4th Century, Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, in Palestine, confirmed that he had found the Epistles of Jesus Christ And Abgarus, King of Edessa in the public registers and records of the city of Edessa in Mesopotamia.
		The first is a letter written by King Abgarus to Jesus asking for his help.
		ABGARUS, king of Edessa, to Jesus the good Saviour, who appears at Jerusalem, greeting.
	www.bibleufo.com /anomlostbooks73.htm (435 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)

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		John Damascene mentions the image in his anti-iconoclastic work On Holy Images [link], quoting a tradition that Abgarus had requested an image of Jesus and Jesus himself put a cloth to his face to produce the image.
		It showed the face of a man. Evagrius Scholasticus mentioned in his Ecclesiastical History the image of Edessa discovered in 544, an image he asserts, that was "created by God, and not produced by the hands of man".
		The Christian tradition is at variance: in 944— exchanged for the liberation of Muslim prisoners— the Image of Edessa was taken from Edessa to Constantinople under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Romanus I, with a great celebration.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Mandylion (698 words)

	Wikipedia: Osroene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Osroene (Osrohene, Osröene), also known by the name of its capital city, Edessa (modern Sanli Urfa), was one of several kingdoms arising from the dissolution of the Seleucid Empire.
		It was in this region that the "legend of Abgarus" originated, for which see Abgarus of Edessa.
		Abgar V Ukkama bar Ma'nu (Abgarus of Edessa) (4 BC - 7 AD)
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/o/os/osroene.html (156 words)

	History of the Shroud of Turin (Wikipedia): Shroud of Turin FAQ
		Except for the Image of Edessa, none of the reports of these (up to 43) different "true shrouds" were known to mention an image of a body.
		The Image of Edessa was reported to contain the image of the face of Christ, and its existence is reported reliably since the sixth century.
		Proponents of the theory that the Edessa image was actually the shroud, led by Ian Wilson, theorize that it was always folded in such a way as to show only the face.
	www.shroudstory.com /faq/Shroud-Turin-wiki03.htm (678 words)

	Letters of Christ and Abgarus
		A copy of a letter written by Abgarus the toparch to Jesus, and sent to him by means of Ananias the runner, to Jerusalem.
		It was regarded naturally as the palladium of Edessa, but was also thought to act as a protection to individuals.
		Thaddaeus and conversion of Edessa, and part of that legend is that Jesus gave the messenger of Abgarus a handkerchief miraculously imprinted with the picture of his face.
	wesley.nnu.edu /biblical_studies/noncanon/writing/jnabgar.htm (378 words)

	Prince of Edessa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Copy of an epistle written by the ruler Abgarus, to Jesus, and sent to him at Jerusalem by Ananias the swift courier.
		And afterward Abgarus said, Thou, O Thaddeus, doest these things with the power of God, and we marvel.
		But, in addition to these things, I pray thee to inform me in regard to the coming of Jesus, how he was born; and in regard to his power, by what power he performed those deeds of which I have heard.
	www.biblefacts.org /church/edessa.html (1025 words)

	Sermon
		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.
		Orthodox tradition claims that it was from this towel of Edessa that the first ancient icon of Jesus The Mandylion Icon was later painted.
	www.mindspring.com /~oslc1/Sermon.htm (1106 words)

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		There is however an early tradition, recorded by Eusebius of Caesarea, that says that Jesus once washed his face with water and then dried it with a cloth, leaving an image of his face imprinted on the cloth.
		This was sent by him to King Abgarus of Edessa, who had sent a messenger asking Jesus to come and heal him of his disease.
		He claims that these are due to the availability of the Image of Edessa (which he claims to be identical with the Shroud of Turin) to the artists.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Images_of_Jesus (919 words)

	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, 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.newadvent.org /fathers/0826.htm (958 words)

	Betrayal At Carrhae by Cliff Mickelson
		Abgarus persuaded Crassus to take a short cut by crossing the Euphrates and then cutting across the desert some 200 miles to the Tigris.
		Abgarus begged to be allowed to pursue them, so permission was granted.
		They crossed the River Balissus and had progressed but a few miles from the Roman infantry when lo and behold, The drums of the Parthian were heard, and the entire Parthian army, with golden banners waving and mailed armor shinning in the hot sun, appeared in front of them.
	www.nvo.com /humanimagineer/betrayalatcarrhaebycliffmickelson (1426 words)

	abgarus
		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.
	apoc.faithweb.com /write/abgarus.htm (528 words)

	Abgarus of Edessa Details, Meaning Abgarus of Edessa Article and Explanation Guide
		Abgarus of Edessa Guide, Meaning, Facts, Information and Description
		Abgar V or Abgarus V of Edessa (born between 4 BC - AD 7 and reigned AD 13 -50) is a historical ruler of the kingdom of Osroene, holding his capital at Edessa.
		This is an Article on Abgarus of Edessa.
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