Banned prior to the American invasion, this national Assyrian festival has started to gain popularity between youths in the last decade.
Eldho Mor Baselios or Maphryono Mor Baselios Yeldho or Eldho Bava, was born in Bakhdida near Mosul in Iraq where Mort Shmoni and her 7 children suffered martyrdom.
The monks of the monastery established contact with Rome in the 18th century, which led to the gradual conversion of inhabitants of Bakhdida to the Syriac Catholic Church.
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