John bar Aphtonia - ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܐܦܬܘܢܝܐ

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"Monastic founder and author."1

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5371 or 5387

male7

The saint is venerated on 4 February (4 Shebaṭ) by Syr. iacob. 7

"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.

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1 J. W. Childers, John Bar Aphtonia, in The 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: 48p: 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