Abda of Edessa
Bishop in the Church of the East
Feast: 16 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Abda was bishop of Edessa. He is commemorated as a saint by the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Martyrology of Rabban Sliba, and his feast day is 16 February. The French scholar Jean Maurice Fiey notes there are two bishops of Edessa of the same name listed by Michael the Syrian's Chronicle, of whom neither have any notable actions or precise dates with which to identify them by.
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The miracles
Limited information available on this saint.
Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q4664620 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Abda of Edessa (CC BY-SA)
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