sentences:  During the reign of Abgar the Great, Christians were favored in the realm of Osroene.It is thought by some that this led to the story of the letters between Abgar V and Jesus of Nazareth.In 1904, Adolf von Harnack proposed that Abgar IX may have been the origin of the story in Liber Pontificalis that King Lucius of Britain wrote to Pope Eleuterus.