Sister Cecilia Hanna 1931-2002 No other Christian church gave as many martyrs for Christianity as the Apostolic Mesopotamian Church of the East did throughout its close to 2000 years of existence. For since its establishment at the hands of Saint Thomas (Mar Toma) the Apostle and St. Thaddeus (Mar Addai) (one of the 72 Apostles, who preached in Mesopotamia between 37-65 A.D) and the Church of the East never stopped giving one martyrs for the cause of Christianity after another. Having been established in a hostile environment with no state to support her, the Church of the East struggled to...
