{{Short description|Persian saint}} {{redirect|Saint Hormizd|the 5th-century Persian martyr|Hormizd the Martyr|the 6th-century pope|Pope Hormisdas}} {{Infobox saint |name=Mar Hormizd |titles=Rabban |image=Mar Hormizd at Syro-Malabar Church, Angamaly–2.jpg |imagesize= |caption=Image of Mar Hormizd Rabban at [[Mar Hormizd Syro-Malabar Cathedral, Angamaly]] |birth_date=6th or early 7th century |death_date=mid 7th century |feast_day=2nd Sunday after [[Easter]] |venerated_in=[[Assyrian Church of the East]], <br>[[Ancient Church of the East]], <br>[[Chaldean Catholic Church]], <br>[[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]]<ref>{{cite book | title =Divine Praises in Aramaic Tradition | author = Fr. Varghese Pathikulangara CMI | publisher =Denha Services | year =2011 |isbn =978-93-81207-02-4 |url =http://www.nasranifoundation.org/books/pdf/DivinePraisesinAramaicTradition.pdf | page =48 | location =Kottayam}}</ref> |birth_place=[[Gundeshapur|Beth Lapat]], [[Persia]] |death_place=[[Rabban Hormizd Monastery]], modern day [[Iraq]] |canonized_by=[[Pre-congregation|Pre-Congregation]] }}
'''Rabban Mar Hormizd''' ({{langx|syc|ܕܪܒܢ ܗܘܪܡܙܕ }}) was a monk who lived in the seventh century in modern northern [[Iraq]]. ''Rabban'' is the [[Syriac language|Syriac]] term for ''monk''. "Rabban" is also the Aramaic word for "teacher".<ref>{{cite web|title=New Testament Aramaic|url=http://www.studylight.org/lexicons/aramaic/awview.cgi?n=2721|website=Studylight.org|accessdate=28 September 2016}}</ref> He founded the [[Rabban Hormizd Monastery]] in [[Alqosh]], named after him, which has served in the past as the patriarchate of the [[Church of the East]].
In the Church of the East and its descendant branches, Rabban Hormizd is commemorated on the second Sunday after [[Easter]].<ref>{{cite web| accessdate=2009-11-15 |title=Memorial of Rabban Hormizd| url=http://www.kaldaya.net/2007/4_DailyNews_April2007/Apr19_07_E1_FrNoel_MEMOREL_RABBANHORMIZD.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424153625/http://www.kaldaya.net/2007/4_DailyNews_April2007/Apr19_07_E1_FrNoel_MEMOREL_RABBANHORMIZD.html | url-status=usurped | archive-date=April 24, 2008 |author=Fr. Noel Gorgis| publisher=Kaldaya.net}}</ref>
==Life== According to ''The histories of Rabban Hormizd the Persian and Rabban Bar-Idta'', a text written by his disciple Simon<ref>{{cite book|last1=Leroy |first1=Jules |last2=Collin |first2=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rzDqR7xjKoUC&pg=PA165 |title=Monks and Monasteries of the Near East |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-59333-276-1 |pages=166–167}}</ref> before the 12th century,<ref name="Budge">{{cite book |title=The histories of Rabban Hormizd the Persian and rabban Bar-Idta| url=https://archive.org/details/historiesrabban00budggoog| editor-first=Ernest Alfred Wallis| editor-last=Budge |editor-link=E. A. Wallis Budge|year=1902 |location =London}}</ref> Hormizd was born at the end of the sixth or beginning the seventh century at [[Beth Lapat]] from a rich or noble family, and at the age of eighteen he started to travel towards [[Scetes]] to become a [[monk]] there. On the way he met three monks of the Church of the East monastery of [[Bar Idta]] who urged him to become 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 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 he opposed the [[miaphysite]] monks of the ''[[Mar Mattai Monastery]]'', which housed the [[Catholicate]] of the [[Syriac Orthodox Church]] in [[Persia]].
==Gallery== <gallery heights="140" widths="140"> File:Tomb of Rabban Hormizd.jpg|Tomb of Mar Hormizd in [[Rabban Hormizd Monastery]]. File:Angamaly Kizhakkeppally.jpg|[[Mar Hormiz Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, Angamaly|Mar Hormizd Syro-Malabar Cathedral, Angamaly]], built by [[Abraham of Angamaly|Mar Abraham]], [[Metropolitan and Gate of All India]]. File:Saint Hurmizd cathedral.jpg|The largest [[Assyrian Church of the East|Assyrian church]] in Australia, ''St Hurmizd Cathedral'' in [[Greenfield Park, New South Wales|Greenfield Park]] named after Hormizd. File:Rabban Hormizd Monastery - view from below (1).jpg|[[Rabban Hormizd Monastery]]: is an important [[monastery]] of the [[Chaldean Catholic Church]] and the [[Church of the East]] in [[Alqosh]], [[Iraq]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Leroy |first1=Jules |last2=Collin |first2=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rzDqR7xjKoUC&pg=PA165 |title=Monks and Monasteries of the Near East |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-59333-276-1 |pages=166–167}}</ref> File:Rabban Hurmizd from Book of Protection.gif|Mar Hormizd Rabban as depicted in ''[[The Book of Protection]]''. </gallery>
==Notes== {{reflist|2}}
==External links== *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080424153625/http://www.kaldaya.net/2007/4_DailyNews_April2007/Apr19_07_E1_FrNoel_MEMOREL_RABBANHORMIZD.html Memorial of Rabban Hormizd - Kaldaya.net]}} *[[E. A. Wallis Budge]], ''The histories of rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and rabban Bar-ʻIdtâ'', [https://archive.org/stream/Budge1902HistoriesOfRabbanHormizdVol.1/Budge%201902_Histories%20of%20Rabban%20Hormizd%2C%20vol.%201#page/n2/mode/1up I, The Syriac texts], London 1902 *[[E. A. Wallis Budge]], ''The histories of rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and rabban Bar-ʻIdtâ'', [https://archive.org/stream/historiesrabban00budggoog#page/n11/mode/1up II/1, English translations], London 1902 *[[E. A. Wallis Budge]], ''The histories of rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and rabban Bar-ʻIdtâ'', [https://archive.org/stream/historiesrabban01budggoog#page/n13/mode/1up II/2, The metrical life of rabban Hôrmîzd by Mâr Sergius of Âdhôrbâîjân. English translations], London 1902
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