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Zayya

Christian saint

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Feast: 13 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
309
Died
431
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Saint Zayya (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܙܝܥܐ) was a travelling mystic, holy man and healer who made his way from Palestine to the mountains of northern Mesopotamia and spreading Christianity with his disciple St. Tawor. The Church of the East honours both Zayya and St. Tawor for their missionary efforts in northern Iraq and the region of Upper Dasen (modern Hakkâri province, Turkey) during the late 4th and early 5th centuries. He is also the patron saint of travellers and the Jilu district, where he is buried, and is invoked for protection from hail, famine, plague, anger, illness, disease and the Angel of Death.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources
  • Wikidata Q8067582 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Zayya (CC BY-SA)

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