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Event Factoid: John went about preaching and teaching the Christian faith in Urtaya Urtaye and spoke the language of Urtaye. As such, many believed that John was Urtaya and called him by that name. John was actually Syrian.

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.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to cite:

Katayoun Torabi, https://spear-prosop.org/10510-21, in The Lives of the Eastern Saints: A SPEAR Prosopography, edited by Daniel L. Schwartz, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, 2025-07-01.

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