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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

Floruit

700-800

Notes

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  • 1 Jean Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques (Princeton, N.J.: The Darwin Press, Inc., 2004), entry: 245.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [= Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., vol: I, p: 1196-97.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 Camel-Driver” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1312.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “John the Camel-Driver.”, 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/1312.

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