 Kunze kwenyaya yokuti Pirato akagadzira mufananidzo waKristu, Eusebius wokuKesariya womuzana remakore rechina, mubhuku rake rinonzi Church History, anotaura zvakawanda nezvechidhori chokutanga chaJesu. Iye anorondedzera kuti Mambo Abgar weEdessa akafa 50 N.V. akatumira tsamba kuna Jesu muJerusarema, achikumbira Jesu kuuya ndokumurapa chirwere. Iyi shanduro yenyaya yaAbgar haitauri nezvemufananidzo, asi nhoroondo yakazotevera yakawanikwa muSyriac Dzidziso yaAddai 400? inotaura nezvemufananidzo wakadhirowewa waJesu munyaya yacho; uye kunyange gare gare, munhoroondo yezana ramakore rechitanhatu yakapiwa naEvagrius Scholasticus, mufananidzo wakadhirowewa unoshanduka kuva mufananidzo wakaonekwa nenzira inoshamisa pahombodo apo Kristu akasundidzira jira kumeso kwake kwakanyorova. Dzimwe ngano dzinotaura kuti jira racho rakaramba riri muEdessa kusvikira muzana remakore rechi10, parakatorwa naGeneral John Kourkouas kuenda kuConstantinople. Yakarasika muna 1204 apo maCrusaderrakapamba Constantinople, asi panguva iyoyo makopi akawanda akanga asimbisa zvakasimba rudzi rwayo rwokufananidzira. 