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In hagiography: Daniel of the Monastery of the Dung Beetles was a refugee from Amida and student of Mar Mattai (his story mirrors the one of Behnam). He established a monastery near that of his teacher, Mar Mattai, with whom he had fled from Amida. The monastery he established was called the monastery of the yellow source. There was a miracle of protective beetles connected to this monastery.

Names

  • Daniel of the Monastery of the Dung Beetles
  • DANIEL1

Floruit

300-400

Sex

male1

Notes

In hagiography: Daniel of the Monastery of the Dung Beetles was a refugee from Amida and student of Mar Mattai (his story mirrors the one of Behnam). He established a monastery near that of his teacher, Mar Mattai, with whom he had fled from Amida. The monastery he established was called the monastery of the yellow source. There was a miracle of protective beetles connected to this monastery.
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  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 114. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Paul Peeters, Le Martyrologe de Rabban Sliba, Analecta Bollandiana 27 (1908): 129–200, p: 135, 166. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Pontificia Università lateranense and Istituto Giovanni XXIII, Bibliotheca sanctorum, 13 vols. (Roma: Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università lateranense, 1961), vol: IVp: 473. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Assyrie Chrétienne. Contribution à l’étude de l’histoire et de La Géographie Ecclésiastiques et Monastiques Du Nord de I’Iraq, 3 vols., Recherches Publiées Sous La Direction de l’lnstitut de Lettres Orientales de Beyrouth 22, 34, 42 (Beyrouth: Imprimerie catholique, 1965), vol: IIp: 615-20. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Daniel of the Monastery of the Dung Beetles” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1197.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Daniel of the Monastery of the Dung Beetles.”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1197.

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