Mari of Edessa

{{Infobox saint |honorific_prefix = Saint |name=Maris |birth_date= |death_date= |feast_day=August 4 2nd Friday of Qayta (Assyrian Church of the East) |venerated_in=Assyrian Church of the East Ancient Church of the East Chaldean Catholic Church Syro-Malabar Catholic Church |image= |imagesize=200px |caption= |birth_place= |death_place= |titles= Apostle of Persia |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }} {{Eastern Christianity}} '''Saint Mari''' [ܡܳܐܪܝ̣], also known as '''Mares'''<ref name="Neale2008"/> or '''Maris''' [Μαρις], and originally named '''Palut''' [ܦܳܠܘ̣ܛ], is a saint of the Church of the East. He was converted by Thaddeus of Edessa, also known as "Addai"), and is said to have had as his spiritual director, Mar Aggai. He is venerated as the Apostle of Persia.

==Missionary work== He is identified as St. Mari of the seventy disciples with whom the Apocryphal ''Acts of Mar Mari'' are connected.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Harrak|first1=Amir|title=The Acts of Mār Mārī the Apostle|date=2005|publisher=Society of Biblical Lit|page=xi|isbn=9781589830936|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v3wzSgkVp_gC}}</ref> According to the ''Acts of Mari'', Addai sent him to convert the area south and east of Edessa. Mari is believed to have done missionary work around Nineveh, Nisibis, and along the Euphrates, and is said to have been one of the great apostles to Syria and Persia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xtkkDQAAQBAJ&dq=Mari+of+Edessa&pg=PA64 Mellon Saint-Laurent, Jeanne-Nicole. ''Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches'', Univ of California Press, 2015, p. 56] {{ISBN|9780520284968}}</ref> He performs a number of miracles as proof of his holiness.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IJtLDwAAQBAJ&dq=Mari+of+Edessa&pg=PA113 Ramelli, Ilaria L. E., ''Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel'', (Stelios Panayotakis, Gareth Schmeling, Michael Paschalis, eds.) Barkhuis, 2015, p. 112] {{ISBN|9789491431920}}</ref>

He and Thaddeus are credited with the ''Liturgy of Addai and Mari''.<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01136d.htm Goggin, John. "Liturgy of Addeus and Maris." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907</ref>

Mari was buried in Dayr-Kuni.<ref name="Neale2008">{{Cite book| publisher = Wipf and Stock Publishers| isbn = 978-1-60608-330-7| last = Neale| first = John Mason| title = A History of the Holy Eastern Church: The Patriarchate of Antioch: The Patriarchate of Antioch| date = 2008|page=38}}</ref>

==Veneration== Mari is venerated as a saint by the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Catholic Church, and the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. His feast day is 5 August in the Christian calendar.<ref name="Magni">{{Cite journal |date=February 2019 |title=Saint Who? Saints Addai and Mari |journal=Magnificat|publisher=Magnificat USA |volume=20 |issue=12 |page=76 |url=http://us.magnificat.net/flipbook/US/243/78/index.php |url-access=subscription |access-date=2019-02-02 |archive-date=2020-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200909153711/http://us.magnificat.net/flipbook/US/243/78/index.php/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Saints''. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. * ''Aux origines de l'eglise de Perse: les Actes de Mar Mari''. Еd. par Jullien C., Jullien F. Leuven, Peeters, 2003, VIII-137 p. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 604). * Jullien C., Jullien F. ''Les Actes de Mar Mari''. Leuven, Peeters, 2003, VIII, 50 p. (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 602). * ''The Acts of Mar Mari the Apostle''. Ed. by Amir Harrak. Atlanta (GA), Society of Biblical Literature, 2005, 134 pp. (Writings from the Greco-Roman World, 11). * ''Atti di Mar Mari''. Ed. Ilaria Ramelli. Brescia: Paideia, 2008. 234 p. (Testi del Vicino Oriente antico 7, Letteratura della Siria cristiana, 2).

{{s-start}} {{s-rel|Church of the East titles}} {{succession box |before=Mar Aggai (c.66 – c.81) |title=Patriarch of the East Bishop of Edessa |years=(c. 87–120) |after=Mar Abris (121–137) }} {{s-end}}

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