AHIAI. – He was elected archbishop of Seleucia in 411 and died in 415 or 416. He had been a disciple of Abda, founder of a monastery and a school over which he had appointed him. He was sent by King Jezdegard to Persia to settle the dispute that had arisen between him and the son of Sapor, his brother, who governed that region. Having completed his mission, he visited the tombs of the martyrs of the persecution of Sapor II, and wrote their acts together with the life of his teacher Abda. He eradicated the practices of magic that had infiltrated the ranks of the Catholics through the agency of the Manichaeans and Marcionites.
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