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In hagiography: John of Kamul was born to a pagan family, from a royal Sasanian line. He was converted and tried to convince Shapur his cousin not to persecute Christians. Mar Awgin baptized him under the name of John. He lived in a cave near Mount Gudi and performed many miracles. The monastery of John of Kamul in Gazarta bears his name.

Names

  • John of Kamul
  • JEAN DE KAMŪL1

Floruit

343

Sex

male1

Notes

In hagiography: John of Kamul was born to a pagan family, from a royal Sasanian line. He was converted and tried to convince Shapur his cousin not to persecute Christians. Mar Awgin baptized him under the name of John. He lived in a cave near Mount Gudi and performed many miracles. The monastery of John of Kamul in Gazarta bears his name.
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  • Addai Scher, Kitāb Sīrat ’ašhar Šuhadā’ al-Mašriq al-Qiddisīn, 2 vols. (Mossoul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1900), vol: IIp: 100. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 248. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Īšō‘dnāḥ de al-Baṣra, Le livre de la chasteté, ed. Jean Baptiste Chabot (Rome, 1896), http://ebooks.library.ualberta.ca/local/lelivredelachast00ishduoft, entry: n° 1, 7, 14, 25, 30 and 103. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [=  Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: Ip: 1137. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Nisibe, Métropole Syriaque Orientale et Ses Suffragants Des Origines à Nos Jours, CSCO 388, Subs. 54 (Louvain: Secrétariat du CorpusSCO, 1977), p: 199-201. 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 of Kamul” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1315.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John of Kamul.”, 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/1315.

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