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Bishop Mar Zaya Sargis of Jilu seated at Mata d-Mar Zaya, 1912
Full-length portrait of the young bishop Mar Zaya Sargis of Jilu, in a turban and dark coat with a pectoral cross, seated on a folding chair with a book in his lap at Mata d-Mar Zaya. AINA notes he was consecrated at Qudshanis in 1900 before the age of twelve and was 24 here.
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Sergei Petrovich Olferiev (1875-1942), Russian vice-consul at Van
