ABRAMO of KAŠKAR. — Born in the year 491 at Kaškar, now al-Wasit, in Mesopotamia, he is called the Great and the father of monasticism among the Nestorians. Died in 588.
He reformed monastic life, which had become very lax, and wrote for his monks the rules (571), which were later renewed by his successor Dadesu (588). J. B. Chabot published these two documents with a Latin version in the Rendiconti dell’Accademia dei Lincei (Rome 1898, p. 51 sq.). The Office of the Chaldeans attributes hymns to A.