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- ↑ Curtin, D. P. (July 2015). Jacobite Arab Synaxarium- Volume I. ISBN 9781088061237.
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/patrologiaorien01grafplgo
- ↑ http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/index.php/Synaxarium_Aethiopicum
- 1 2 Holweck, F. G., A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1924
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