Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson (eds.), "ʾAbn — ܐܒܢ " in last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1543 ʾAbn ܐܒܢ Abn ʾAbn Abn http://syriaca.org/person/1543 Abn is an ascetic who came into the Syriac tradition via ʿEnanishoʿ's Syriac translation of the Paradise of the Fathers by Palladius. He calmed a violent hippopotamus. Saint ʾAbn is commemorated in Abn (text). Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca 303