Abraham the Patriarch
![[Abraham, Sarah, and the Angel]](saintab8.jpg "44kb jpg detail of 'Abraham, Sarah, and the Angel' by Jan Provost, c.1500, Musée du Louvre, Paris; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
- Abram
- Memorial
- 9 October
- Profile
- Old Testament patriarch.
Married to Sarah.
Founder of the Hebrew nation.
Father of all believers in the true God.
At God's command he moved from his native Chaldea to Canaan.
Nomadic shepherd.
Reported to have lived to age 175.
- Born
- at Ur, Chaldea as Abram
- Died
- c.1700 BC of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Representation
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bearded old man offering food to three angels;
bearded old man holding a blanket containing small people representing the souls of all believers saved since his first reaction to God
- Print References
- The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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