Isaac of Nineveh
Isaac of Nineveh St. Isaac the Syrian (Orthodox icon) Mar Isaac the Syrian Born c. 613 Qatar Died c. 700 Nineveh Venerated in Eastern Orthodoxy Oriental Orthodoxy Assyrian Church of the East Roman Catholicism Eastern Catholicism Major shrine monastery of Shabar, Iraq Feast January 28 Attributes bishop and theologian Patronage The Village of monastery of Shabar 'Isaac of Nineveh (Arabic: إسحاق النينوي Ishak an-Naynuwī; Greek: Ἰσαὰκ Σύρος; c. 613 – c. 700) also remembered as Isaac the Syrian, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar was a 7th-century Syriac bishop and theologian best remembered for his written works on Christian asceticism. He is also regarded as a saint in the (non-Ephesian) Church of the East, the Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and among the (non-Chalcedonian) Oriental Churches, making him the last saint chronologically to be recognised by every apostolic Church. His feast day falls, together with Saint Ephraim the Syrian, on January 28.