Abda of Hira

Abda of Hira (died 680) was a monk of the Assyrian Church of the East.

He was born at Al-Hirah, the son of Hanif. He became a monk under Mar Abda of Gamre. After having taught as a disciple by Mar Babai he later lived in a cave. One of his miracle deeds was to have treated with healing oil a wound of a hunter who had been injured by a lion. He preached Christianity to the Zoroastrian Persians and was said to have worked many miracles before dying in his cave in 680.

References

• Holweck, F. G. "A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints". St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co., 1924.
• Fowden, Elizabeth Key (1999). The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran. Los Angeles, USA: University of California Press, Ltd. p. 121.