Yahballaha III
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Yahballaha III, known in earlier years as Rabban Marcos was Patriarch of the East from 1281 to 1317. As patriarch, Yahballaha headed the Church of the East during the severe persecutions under the rei
A 15th-century miniature depicting Riccoldo da Monte di Croce in the audience before Yahballaha III
Nestorians 1
Rubbing of a Nestorian Cross at the Shih tzu ssu 1
Church of the East
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The Church of the East or the East Syriac Church, is one of three major branches of Eastern Nicene Christianity that arose from the Christological controversies in the 5th century and the 6th century,
Yahballaha III
…November 1317), known in earlier years as Rabban Marcos (or Markos) was Patriarch of the East from 1281 to 1317. As patriarch, Yahballaha headed the Church of the East during the severe persecutions under the reign of khans Ghazan and his successor Öljaitü. He acknowledged the primacy of the Pope and tried to form a…
East Syriac ceramic epitaph with Syriac and Uyghur writing.
Ruins of the Monastery of Saint Elijah in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005. The site was destroyed by the Islamic State in 2014.
Palm Sunday procession of Nestorian clergy in a 7th- or 8th-century wall painting from the Nestorian church at Karakhoja, Chinese Turkestan.
Mogao Christian painting, a late-9th-century silk painting preserved in the British Museum.