Event Factoid: John's
mother and
father
visited the holy Maro and asked him to save John's life, as all of
his brothers and sisters died in infancy.
Sources:
E. W Brooks, trans.,Lives of the Eastern Saints I,Patrologia Orientalis 17.1 (1923), https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaorient17pariuoft#page/n7/mode/2up, p: 61.