Event Factoid: John
Urtaya's fame spread far and wide, attracting many followers
including two excellent scribes from the Convent of Edessa at
Amida,
Samuel and
Jonathan.
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: 209.