Dear Mr. عبدالاحد سليمان بولص
I have attached few extracts from the following books for your kind consideration:
1- The Legend of Mar Qardagh, by Joel Thomas Walker, 2006. This book is considered as the best and complete book about the biography of Mar Qardagh.
2- Acta Mar Kardaghi (The Assyrian Officer), by J.B. Abbeloos 1890. It is the Latin translation of the biography with origin Syriac texts.
3- The Doctrine of Addai the Apostle, by George Phillips, 1876. It is the English translation from Syriac texts.
4- Synodicon Orientale, by J.B. Chabot, 1902. It is French translation with Syriac texts.
From the attachments you can notice:
- There is no doubt in the mind of the hagiographer who wrote the biography of Mar Qardagh that the saint was from Assyrian race and his father was descended from the lineage of the house of Nimrod and his mother from the lineage of the house of Sennacherib. This exactly matches with the what is written by Albert Abouna.
- In the Doctrine of Mar Addai, the phrasing (and in their own country of the Assyrians) it is clear that they are referring to the Assyrian people or at least there were Assyrians living in the country intended.
- Synodicon Orientale, in Synod year 585 AD, we can read the signatory n° 24 as follows:
And on behalf of Mar Henana, Metropolitan of the Assyrians, signed by Mar Aba, priest, his archdeacon.
If all the above are not referring to the Assyrians then which nation do these documents refer to?
With my best wishes
Raymond Raphael - France