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Edessa

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E·des·sa  (-ds)
An ancient city of Mesopotamia on the site of present-day Urfa in southeast Turkey. A major Christian center after the third century a.d., it was conquered by the Arabs in 639 and was captured by Crusaders in 1097.


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There developed deep and lasting traditions of Thomas and Thaddeaus, moving east to Edessa and further to the Arabian Gulf and India.
Mission paradigms in the Pax Americana by Grafton, David D. / Currents in Theology and Mission
Drawings for the original basilica built by Emperor Constantine come next, followed by its treasures, a Bust of an Angel, a mosaic by Giotto, and the Mandylion of Edessa, a 5th-century linen painting of Our Lord surrounded by an elaborate gold and silver frame.
Montreal exhibit, June 4-Sept. 18: the Legacy of the Popes by Mason, Mary / Catholic Insight
More germane, those references do not occur in Agapius's own words but rather in texts which, like Josephus, he presents as "quotations"--the first from a putative dossier drawn up by Pilate for Tiberius Caesar and the second in a letter of Abgar, king of Edessa.
A Jewish Perspective of Jesus by Golden, Steven H. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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