of Mesopotamia, in remembrance of the benefits he had received from Abgar by Helena's means. Helena, pious like her husband Abgar, did not wish to live in the midst of idolaters; she went away to Jerusalem in the time of Claudius, during the famine which Agabus had predicted; with all her treasures she bought in Egypt an immense quantity of corn, which she distributed amongst the poor, a fact to which Josephus testifies. Helena's tomb, a truly remarkable one, is still to be seen before the gate of Jerusalem. CHAPTER XXXVI. Restoration of the town of Medzpine-Name of Sanadroug--His death. Of all Sanadroug's doings and actions, we judge none worthy of remembrance except the building of the town of Medzpine; for, this town having been shaken by an earthquake, Sanadroug pulled it down, rebuilt it more magnificently, and surrounded it with double walls and ramparts. Sanadroug caused to be erected in the middle of the town. his statue holding in his hand a single piece of money, which signifies: "All my treasures have been used in building the town, and no more than this single piece of money is left to me." But why was this prince called Sanadroug? We will tell you: Because Abgar's sister, Otæa, while travelling in Armenia in the winter, was assailed by a whirlwind of snow in the Gortouk mountains; the tempest separated them all, so that none of them knew where his companion had been driven. The prince's nurse, Sanod, sister of Piourad Pacradouni, wife of Khosran Ardzrouni, having taken the royal infant, for Sanadroug was still in the cradle, laid him upon her bosom, and remained with him under the snow three days and three nights. Legend has taken possession of this circumstance it relates that an animal, a new species, wonderful, of great whiteness, sent by the gods, guarded the child. But so far as we have been informed, this is the fact: a white dog, which was amongst the men sent in search, found the child and his nurse; the prince was therefore called Sanadroug, a name taken from his nurse's name (and from the Armenian name, dourk, a gift), as if to signify the gift of Sanod. Sanadroug, having ascended the throne in the twelfth year of Ardachès, king of the Persians, and having lived thirty years, died as he was hunting, from an arrow which pierced his bowels, as if in punishment of the torments which he had made his holy daughter suffer. Gheroupna, son of the scribe Apchatar, collected all these facts, happening in the time of Abgar and Sanadroug, and placed them in the archives of Edessa. [NOTE referred to on p. 39.-The following list of the Syrian names of months, in use in the empire and during the era of the Seleucidæ, several of which have been mentioned in these Documents, is taken from Caswinii Calendarium Syriacum, edited in Arabic and Latin by Volck, 1859. The later Hebrew names also are here added for comparison. It must, however, be noticed that "the years employed [in the Syrian Calendar] were, at least after the incarnation, Julian years, composed of Roman months." (See L'Art de vérifier les dates: Paris, 1818, tom. i. p. 45.) The correspondence with the Hebrew months, therefore, is not so close as the names would indicate, since these commenced with the new moons, and an intercalary month, Veadar, following their twelfth month Adar, was added. ABGAR, king of Edessa, meaning of 10, 12; commands money to be division of the kingdom of, after Abshelma, made deacon by Addæus, 29. Addæus. [See Thaddeus.] Antonius, governor of Edessa, 138. Apostles, the, the preaching of, Aretas, aided in a war against Herod Aristides, sent by Tiberius to Abgar, Ascension of Christ, 36. Avida and Barcalba, ask Addæus BABAI, sister of Sharbil, put to death CANTICLE, the, of Mar Jacob on Edessa, when she sent the request Chorepiscopoi, 42, 43. Clergy, orders of, appointed by the Constitutions of the apostles, 38-43. DAYS and times of sacred observ- Dead, the commemoration of the, 41, Death, contempt of, shown by Chris- Diocletian, persecution of the Chris- EAST, praying towards the, 38. 39. FABIANUS, bishop of Rome, 80. GREGORY, St., his illustrious descent, Guides and rulers of the church, HABIB, a deacon, accused to the |