John bar Aphtonia - ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ
http://syriaca.org/person/52
“Monastic founder and author.”1
Names
- ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ4
- John bar Aphtonia
- ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ6
- ܝܘܚܰܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܰܦܬܘܢܝܰܐ4
- يوحنا ابن افتونيا3
- Jean bar Aphtonia6
- JEAN BAR APHTONIA7
- John bar Aphthonia
- John Bar Aphtonia
- John bar Aphtonia
- Yōḥanān bar ʾAptōnyā6
- Yuḥanān bar Aptoniyā
- Jean bar Aphtonia6
- Jean bar Aphtonya6
- John bar Aphtonia1
- John Bar Aphtonia2
Birth
475
Sex
male7
Event
The saint is venerated on 4 February (4 Shebaṭ) by Syr. iacob.
7
Notes
“Monastic founder and author.”1
In hagiography: John bar Aphtonia is
commemorated as a saint born in Edessa and named after his mother, Aphtonia, who
consecrated him to God. He joined the monastery of St. Thomas in Seleucia Pieria near Antioch.
According to tradition, he was later chased out of the area by Chalcedonians
(in the 530s) and founded the monastery of Qenneshrin on the Euphrates, across from
Europos. He
wrote a Life of Severus of
Antioch
[http://syriaca.org/work/120]
which survives in several versions.
Status: draft
Is this record complete?
See Also
Works Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 J. W. Childers,John Bar Aphtonia,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 229.
- 2 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum,The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003), entry: 48, p: 289.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم,كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus
Verlag, 1987), p: 250.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ
ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani and ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝܦܝܠܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ
ܝܘܚܢܢ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag,
1991), p: 275.
- 5 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: John bar Aphtonia.
- 6 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 467, 469, 470, 471, 560, 561, 562, 952, 953, 566, 951.
- 7 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 237.
- 8 François Nau,Histoire de l’Illustre Jean, Supérieur Du Saint Monastére d’Aphtonia, Écrite Par l’un
de Ses Disciples,Revue de l’Orient Chrétien 7 (1902): 121–35, https://archive.org/stream/revuedelorientch71902pari#page/120/mode/2up, p: 97-135.
- 9 Paul Peeters,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 497.
- 10 Jan Willem Drijvers and J. W. Watt, eds.,Portraits of Spiritual Authority : Religious Power in Early Christianity, Byzantium,
and the Christian Orient, Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 137 (Leiden: Brill, 1999), p: 155-69.
- 11 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: I, p: 1112.
- 12 Anton Baumstark,Geschichte Der Syrischen Literatur, Mit Ausschluss Der Christlich-Palästinensischen
Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1922), p: 181.
- 13 J.-B. Chabot,Littérature Syriaque, Bibliothèque Catholique Des Sciences Religieuses (Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), p: 73.
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Additional Credit:
- Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
- German data entry by Samer Khader
- Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
- Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
- Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
- Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
- Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
- Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
- Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
- Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
- GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
- Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
- Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne