Event Factoid: Mar
Samuel stood on a column for a time before he began to build
his convent. Abraham
III sent his monks to help Mar Samuel build the
convent.
Sources:
E. W Brooks, trans.,Lives of the Eastern Saints III,Patrologia Orientalis 29.2 (1925), https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaorient19pariuoft#page/n163/mode/2up, p: 216.