Rabban Hormizd
| Mar Hormizd | |
|---|---|
| Rabban | |
| Born | 6th or early 7th century Beth Lapat, Persia |
| Died | mid 7th century Rabban Hormizd Monastery, modern day Iraq |
| Venerated in | Chaldean Catholic Church Assyrian Church of the East Syro-Malabar Catholic Church[1] |
| Feast | 2nd Sunday after Easter |
Rabban Mar Hormizd (Syriac: ܕܪܒܢ ܗܘܪܡܙܕ ) was an Assyrian monk who lived in the seventh century in Assuristan (Assyria, modern northern Iraq). Rabban is the Syriac term for monk. He founded the Rabban Hormizd Monastery, named after him, which has been the main monastery of the Assyrian Church of the East and later of the Chaldean Catholic Church which originated among members of the Assyrian Church.
In the Chaldean Church, Rabban Hormizd is commemorated on the second Sunday after Easter.[2]
Life
According to The histories of Rabban Hormizd the Persian and Rabban Bar-Idta, a text written by his disciple Simon[3] before the 12th century,[4] Hormizd was born at the end of the sixth or beginning the seventh century at Beth Lapat (in Sassanid ruled Assyria) from a rich Assyrian Christian family, and at the age of eighteen he started to travel towards Scetes to became a monk there. On the way he met three monks of the Assyrian Church monastery of Bar Idta who urged him to became an inmate of their monastery, and he did so. He lived a hard, stern life. Hormizd lived in and near the Monastery of Bar Idta for thirty-nine years and in the monastery of Abba Abraham of Risha for six or seven years.
When Hormizd was sixty-five or sixty-six, he left the monastery and passing out of the country of Marga went and settled down in the mountain of Beth 'Edhrai near the Assyrian town of Alqosh. When he had been there some little time the people in the neighbourhood offered to build him a monastery, the present Rabban Hormizd Monastery. The following part of the life of Rabban Hormizd is marked by episodes in which the saint opposed the monks of the Mar Mattai Monastery (which belonged to the rival Syrian Orthodox Church), charged of immoral life and of idolatry.
Notes
External links
- Memorial of Rabban Hormizd - Kaldaya.net
- E. A. Wallis Budge, The histories of rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and rabban Bar-ʻIdtâ, I, The syriac textes, London 1902
- E. A. Wallis Budge, The histories of rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and rabban Bar-ʻIdtâ, II/1, English translations, London 1902
- E. A. Wallis Budge, The histories of rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and rabban Bar-ʻIdtâ, II/2, The metrical life of rabban Hôrmîzd by Mâr Sergius of Âdhôrbâîjân. English translations, London 1902
