St Yeldo Mar Baselios was born in 1593, in the famous Hadhai family, in a village called kooded (Bakhdida), now known as Karakosh near Mosul in the present Iraq, the same place where Marth Smooni and her 7 children suffered martyrdom. At a very young age he joined the Mar Read more
Mar Dionysius Shemvun was born in the Karottuveettil family of Kandanad to Kochipeora Tharakan and Unnicharu on 4th December 1823. His baptismal name was Shemvun and belonged to the Marth Mariam Church at Kandanad. He had his preliminary education in the local town school. From his childhood he was very Read more
Mar Abhai, saint, and martyr, ascetic, born in a village Raksan in Mardin, Turkey in the middle of the fourth century BC. Abhai abandoned the world, gave all his wealth to the poor and joined a Dyayra (monastery). He had recourse to ascetic life in the mountain of Karkar and Read more