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Asenath: see Asineth (Aseneth)
Ashdod: see Azot.
Asher: Son of Jacob and Zilpah, the slave of Leah. (Gn 30, 13). - Name of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The tribe
of Asher occupied the coast, north of the mount Carmel. Anna, the prophetess in the New Testament, was of the tribe
of Asher (Lk 2, 36).
Asher Abba: The Ethiopian Synaxarium mentions on the 11th day of the month Genbot 'On this day Abba Asher, the
teacher of Bali, was martyred as he was going to Jerusalem in the time of Wanag Sagad (died 1540), the king. Asher
worshipped before they cut off his head with the sword, and afterwards they burnt him in the fire, at the gates of
Jerusalem, at the place where the foot of our Lord stood'(place of the Ascension).
Asineth, wife of Joseph of Egypt. She is named among the 'just of the Old Testament' on the First Sunday of the
Advent in the Eastern Church. - The Ethiopian Synaxarium has a salutation to ASNET (Asenath, Aseneth) the wife of
saint Joseph, the just, the son of Jacob-Israel, on the first day of the month of Saneh (the tenth month: june 5 - july 4).
Aspebet-Peter, bishop of the camps (Paremboles). Round 420 Arab sheikhs, received the order to impede the
persecuted Christians of Persia to flee to the Roman Empire. Aspebet favoured the escape. He was betrayed and he fled
to the Romans. The prefect of the Orient, Anatolus, appointed him as chief of the Saracen tribes of Arabia. Aspebet
brought his sick son Terebon to Euthyme, the Great. This monk healed Terebon. Aspebet converted to Christianity and
adopted the name Peter. Round 425, he was ordained 'bishop of the camps' by Juvenal of Jerusalem. His bishopric
'Paremboles, Camps (Castra Sarracenorum) extended between the monastery of St. Euthymius (Khan el-Ahmar or
Khan es-Sahel) and the monastery of St. Theoctist (Deir el-Moukelik in wadi Dabor). Peter was present at the Council
of Ephesus in 431. After his return he represented the Acts of Ephesus to Euthymius. The signature of Peter was:
Petros, episcopos Paremboloon.
Assisi. AA.SS. Oct 4 mention: Iter monachorum Hierosolymitanorum quatuor Assisium (in 353 four monks) - iter
eremitarurn Palaestinorum Assisium (in 513).
Assumptionists or Augustinians of the Assumption. They were founded in 1845 by E. Daude d'Alzon. They came to
Jerusalem and possess the sanctuary St. Peter's in Gallicantu (cock-crow).
Asterius, Sanctus, bishop of Petra, about 350. (AA.SS. June 20, together with St. Arius sive, Macarius)
Asynkrites (Asynkritus), one of the 70 disciples, bishop of Hyrcania. In the Roman Martyrology he is listed with
Herodion on April 8. He is greeted by Paul in his letter to the Romans (Rm 16, 14).
Atarbius: He was an emissary of Ephiphanius of Constantia, and began anti-Origenistic propaganda in Palestine (395).
Then Jerome foresook his allegiance to Origen's teaching, while Rufinus remained loyal to the doctrine of Origen.
Athanasia, St., wife of Andronicus, the goldsmith in Jerusalem. (Mart. Rom. Oct 9)
Athanasia, martyr, Jan 31 and June 28. She was the mother of three daughters-martyrs: Theodota, Theoctista, Eudoxia.
- In the Greek synaxaries her feast is on Jan 31. In the Palestinian-Georgian calendar the 4 women, together with the
martyrs Cyrus and his disciple John, are remembered on June 28 'in the church of the Resurrection'.
Athanasius of Alexandria (Athanasius, the Great), St., born at Alexandria, about 295, died Alexandria, May 2, 373.
(Feast on May 2). He was bishop of Alexandria from 328 to 373. Emperor Constantine (335) exiled him to Treves in
northern Gaul. Athanasius promoted the monastic ideal in his travels through Italy and Gaul. He went to Sardica (in
Bulgaria), where a general council had been summoned by the Emperors Constans and Constantius II (343).
Constantius II allowed Athanasius to return to his see in Alexandria, where he arrived in Oct 346. During this journey
to Alexandria he visited Palestine. - Three archbishops of Alexandria (Alexander, Athanasius, Cyrillus) are
commemorated in Jerusalem on Jan 18, according to the calendar of the Georgians.
Athanasius, St. Deacon of Jerusalem and Martyr, July 4 in Mart. Rom. He was tormented by the heretics who followed
Eutyches (born 375, condemned by Chalcedon, died 454). Finally Athanasius was killed round 452 by the sword.
Particular feast in the Latin Patriarchate. The AA.SS. has his feast on July 5.