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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Deacon, John Leavitt, Fulgentius Ferrandus, John the Deacon, John Doane, John the Deacon, Leontine Martyrs, Philo and Agathopodes, Abdisho, Hugh the Chanter, James, Azadanus and Abdicius. Excerpt: Abdisho (298-c. 345) was a deacon and martyr of the Christian church. He was an Ethnic Assyrian. He was Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Deacon, John Leavitt, Fulgentius Ferrandus, John the Deacon, John Doane, John the Deacon, Leontine Martyrs, Philo and Agathopodes, Abdisho, Hugh the Chanter, James, Azadanus and Abdicius. Excerpt: Abdisho (298-c. 345) was a deacon and martyr of the Christian church. He was an Ethnic Assyrian. He was imprisoned with Bishop Heliodorus of Bet Zabdai in Mesopotamia by order of Shapur II. Following the deaths of bishop Dausa and 275 companions at Masabadan, Abdisho, who survived, continued to preach the gospel and bury the martyrs. He was finally ordered killed by the mayor of the village about 345.References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Deacon is a role in the Christian Church that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. In many traditions, the diaconate, the term for a deacon's office, is a clerical office; in others, it is for laity. The word deacon (and deaconess ) is derived from the Greek word diakonos (), which is a standard ancient Greek word meaning "servant", "waiting-man," "minister" or "messenger." One commonly promulgated speculation as to its etymology is that it literally means 'through the dust', referring to the dust raised by the busy servant or messenger. It is generally believed that the office of deacon originated in the selection of seven men, among them Stephen, to assist with the charitable work of the early church as recorded in Acts 6. Deaconesses are mentioned by Pliny the Younger in a letter to Trajan dated c. 112. The exact relationship between Deacons and Deaconesses varies. In some traditions a deaconess is simply a female deacon; in others, deaconesses constitute a separate order; in others, the title "deaconess" is given to the wife of a Books, , Deacons~~Books-Llc, 999999999, Deacons, Books Llc, 1156437512, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

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