Event Factoid: During the time that Jonathan and Samuel lived with
Mar John
Urtaya, they learned a great deal about asceticism and
the Christian faith. The convent flourished, buildings were established,
and the brotherhood grew to fifty in number.
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.