Daoud, Francis
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Daoud, Francis

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Daoud-Francis http://syriaca.org/bibl/164 155 Francis Daoud http://syriaca.org/person/440 [person] [Bishop and translator.]

(1870–1939) [Chald.]

He was born in Ārādn near al-ʿAmadiyya, and in 1883 joined the Seminary of St. John . He was ordained a priest in 1893 by Patr. Eliya ʿAbū al-Yūnān, and in 1910 was consecrated bp. for al-ʿAmadiyya by Patr. Emmanuel Toma. In 1914 and during World War I he was accused of being a spy against the government and was under house arrest in Mosul until he was proven innocent. Then he left to Ārādn where he died in 1939.

He translated into Syriac Alfonse Muzzarelli’s Il mese di Maria ossia il mese di maggio (1785) from an Arabic version and published it under the title Méditations pour chaque jour du mois de Marie (Mosul, 1907).

Sources

Abūna, Adab, 507.
Macuch, Geschichte, 412.

George A. Kiraz