Event Factoid: Before the Convent of
John Urtaya was established there were a collection of
huts on the site, named after Mar Afwrsm.
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: 208.