The chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus : being the first part of his political history of the world / translated from the Syriac by Ernest A. Wallis Budge.
- Bar Hebraeus
- Date:
- 1932
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Credit: The chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus : being the first part of his political history of the world / translated from the Syriac by Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![hebraeus] of Aleppo, who, his diocese having been taken away from him, had come to the monastery [of Dionysius]. And Gregory the bishop went, and he came to the physician-envoy on the road, and he went with him to Damascus. And kir mikha’il received a new patent of authority for dionysius, and he gave it to Gregory, who took it and came to aleppo. And he went into the church and dwelt there and ruled the diocese. And as soon as the Maphrian ignatius heard that the matter of dionysius was settled, he departed from aleppo and went to Tripoli. And he promul¬ gated a report concerning himself that he was never again going to minister in the chief office of the priesthood, neither in the East nor in the West, but was going to make a living by healing the sick. And when he began to go in and out in visiting the sick, and wellnigh became an object of con¬ tempt, God removed him from this temporary life by means of an acute disease which attacked him. He died on the fourth day, and he was buried with honour by the monks, and the Frankish elders and our own community in the Church of mar behnam (Chron. Eccles. i, col. 726 f.; ii, col. 427). bar hebraeus was restored to the diocese of aleppo in 1258. In 1264 bar hebraeus was elected Maphrian of the East, and in the Chron. Eccles. i, col. 749, ii, col. 423, he describes the event thus: At the time when ignatius1 [iii], that is salibha the Maphrian, died, the countries were in a disturbed state, Baghdad was laid waste, and after it there were laid waste aleppo, and the whole of Syria, and beth nahrin. Moreover, thereupon the arabs of athor (Assyria) and nineveh rose up against the Christians who were there and destroyed them. And after a little while the Tatars came and killed the arabs, and thus there was general destruction in all countries. Thus the wasted Church of the East remained a widow for the space of six years. Moreover, for three years before the death of salibha the Maphrian, the Church had been deprived of a Father-General. Therefore the Synod of the pious bishops having assembled in cilicia, they appointed to be Patriarch mar ignatius or rabban isho', the Archimandrite of gawikhath, and they also proceeded to the election of the Maphrian. And a few days after the consecration of the Patriarch the pious bishops and the Patriarch assembled in sis of cilicia, and they summoned Gregory, that is ’abu’l-farag, the son of ’ahron. And on the first day of the week, on the 19th day of the month of the latter kanon (i.e. January), of the fifteen hundred and seventy- fifth year of the Greeks (i.e. a.d. 1264), they proclaimed him Maphrian of tagrith and the East. For mar John the Patriarch, bar ma'dani wished to proclaim him, and he had also made known to the Eastern churchmen concerning him, that he was fitting to rise up as a head for them; but owing to the disturbed state of the countries the laying on of hands (i.e. consecra¬ tion of him) had been delayed. 1 He sat from 1264 to 1282.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31365334_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
