sentences:  He refused repeated calls that he be made the Chaldean Catholic Church Bishop of Salamas.Of his works, his seven edited volumes of Syriac lives of saints and martyrs ("Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum") and five volumes of verse-homilies of Jacob of Serugh ("Homiliae selectae Mar Iacobi Sarugensis") are the most significant.He was able to complete a Neo-Aramaic Bible translation shortly before the end of his life.