Maruta

Maruta (karne ya 4 – 415) alikuwa mmonaki wa Kanisa la MasharikiThe Armenian Life of Marutha of Maipherkat, Ralph Marcus, The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jan., 1932), 47.  maarufu kama askofu wa Mayferkat (leo Silvan nchini Uturuki) kwa zaidi ya miaka 10 ambapo alifaulu kuzuia dhuluma ya Dola la Persia dhidi ya WakristoThe Armenian Life of Marutha of Maipherkat, Ralph Marcus, The Harvard Theological Review, 50..

Hivyo aliweza kujenga upya makanisa, kukusanya humo masalia ya wafiadini, kuendesha sinodi mbili zilizolipa Kanisa hilo muundo imara, pamoja na kuandika vitabu vya historia ya Kanisa na ufafanuzi wa Biblia, tenzi, anafora n.k.His writings include: 
 Acts of the Persian Martyrs (these acts remember the victims of the persecution of Shapur II and Yazdegerd I)
 History of the Council of Nicaea
 A translation in Syriac of the canons of the Council of Nicaea
 A Syrian liturgy, or anaphora
 Commentaries on the Gospels
 Acts of the Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (26 spurious canons of a synod held in 410)
He also wrote hymns on the Holy Eucharist, on the Cross, and on saints killed in Shapur's persecution.

Rafiki wa Yohane Krisostomo, alishiriki Mtaguso wa kwanza wa Konstantinopoli (481)http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92498.

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa na Wakatoliki, Waorthodoksi na Waorthodoksi wa Mashariki kama mtakatifu. 

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 16 FebruariMartyrologium Romanum.

Tazama pia
Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo
Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika
Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko
Mababu wa Kanisa

Tanbihi

 Marejeo 
Maruthas from the Catholic Encyclopedia (1915)
De Lacy O'Leary, The Syriac Church and Fathers (2002)
Smith, William & Wace, Henry (editors); A dictionary of christian biography, literature, sects and doctrine, "Maruthas (1)", (1877). 
 Moffett, Samuel Hugh.  A History of Christianity in Asia, (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1998) p. 154-155

Category:Waliozaliwa karne ya 4
Category:Waliofariki 415
Jamii:Wamonaki
Jamii:Maaskofu Wakatoliki
Category:Mababu wa Kanisa
Category:Watakatifu wa Uturuki