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Aba of Kashkar

priest, martyred at Kashkar, Persia with Saints Abda and Abdjesus

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 16 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born

301

Died

374

Beatified

—

not needed: before formal processes

Canonised

By tradition

recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Abdisho and Abda were two successive bishops of Kashkar who were martyred along with 38 companions in 376 during the Forty-Year Persecution in the Sasanian Empire.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources

Wikidata Q4663116 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
English Wikipedia — Aba (died 376) (CC BY-SA)

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