Event Factoid: Severus received a letter from
the monastery of ʿAkiba
seeking his support in the matter of
John, a monk of that monastery
who was absent without permission. They feared that he would be ordained
without their consent.
Sources:
Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac
Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part II: Letters III.1-XI.1, vol. 2.2 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1904), p: 382, part: VII.6.