Abraham of Nethpra was a monk of the Assyrian Church of the East

Assyrian Church of the East

The Assyrian Church of the East, officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East ʻIttā Qaddishtā w-Shlikhāitā Qattoliqi d-Madnĕkhā d-Āturāyē), is a Syriac Church historically centered in Mesopotamia. It is one of the churches that claim continuity with the historical...

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He was born in Beith-Nethpra in Adiabene

Adiabene

Adiabene was an ancient Assyrian independent kingdom in Mesopotamia, with its capital at Arbela...

. He became a hermit

Hermit

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 there, and, after returning from Egypt

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, returned to hermiticism, living for thirty years in a cave before dying in the 6th century.

He changed the religious habit

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 of the monks of the Assyrian Church to make it easier to distinguish them from similar Monophysite monks.

He is regarded as a saint of the Assyrian Church, with a feast day of March 13.