History of Mar Yahballaha and Three Other Patriarchs

verted to Catholicism, as stated on his epitaph. In this family, before its conversion, the episcopate was hereditary through nepotism, as is still practiced today among the Nestorians. Had they brought this dignity with them from Maragha while fleeing persecution? I would be tempted to believe so, though I cannot affirm it positively.

May this little book be useful to the scholars of the West as well as to my dear compatriots of the East.

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