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Late 1246. Tabriz. Raben Atha (the catholicos of Armenia) writes to Frederick II. He had heard several years ago that he had come to fight for the Holy Land but had not completed it and that discord had been the reason. He has now heard from merchants that the pope is against him. He urges him to be reconciled to the pope, in view of what has happened to the Holy City and Christendom and the Holy Sepulchre. Frederick should seek reconciliation with the pope and accept whatever he says about the Holy Land and Christendom. Using the Dominicans, Andrew (of Longjumeau) and his colleague, Raben Atha (Ata) has written to the pope, the patriarch of Jerusalem and other fathers urging reconciliation. He also seeks his clemencia for John our archbishop of Jerusalem and for our eastern Christian brothers in Syria.