John the Camel-Driver - [ Syriac Not Available ]
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In hagiography: John the Camel-Driver was
commemorated in Thomas of
Marga's Book of Governors
[http://syriaca.org/work/1290]
.
In this account, Maran Zha, bishop of Ḥadita on the Tigris, heard a camel driver singing Syriac chants among the Arab camel
drivers. This man, John, had been a Syriac bishop of the Egyptian diaspora before he was
captured by the Bedouins. He was entombed near Ḥadita, but only his habit was
found.
Names
- John the Camel-Driver
- JEAN L'ÉVÊQUE CHAMELIER1
Sex
male1
Floruit
700-8001
Notes
In hagiography: John the Camel-Driver was
commemorated in Thomas of
Marga's Book of Governors
[http://syriaca.org/work/1290]
.
In this account, Maran Zha, bishop of Ḥadita on the Tigris, heard a camel driver singing Syriac chants among the Arab camel
drivers. This man, John, had been a Syriac bishop of the Egyptian diaspora before he was
captured by the Bedouins. He was entombed near Ḥadita, but only his habit was
found.
Status: incomplete
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Works Cited
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- 1 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 245.
- 3 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum
orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., : I, 1196-97.
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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John the Camel-Driver.”, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and David A. Michelson. Vol. 1 of Gateway to the Syriac Saints, edited by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1312.About this Entry
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