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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

Notes

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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Works Cited

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  • 1 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 240.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 FieyAssyrie chrétiennevol: III, p: 122-23., vol: III, p: 122-23.
  • 4
  • 5 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., vol: I, p: 1131.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat 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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