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In hagiography: John the Blue was the bishop of Ḥirta. He was also known as the young man from Ḥirta.

Names

  • John the Blue
  • JEAN LE BLEU1

Floruit

650-714

Death

714

Sex

male1

Notes

In hagiography: John the Blue was the bishop of Ḥirta. He was also known as the young man from Ḥirta.Ebedjésus of Nisibis attributes to him a book of directions and 280 letters, the marjority of which are on biblical subjects.4
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  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 240. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 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: IIIp: 122-23. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū al-Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī, Les Fêtes des Melchites., ed. Robert Griveau, Patrologia Orientalis X.4 (1914). Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [=  Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: Ip: 1131. 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., “John the Blue” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1309.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John the Blue.”, 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/1309.

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