Event Factoid: Maro made
John's
mother and
father
promise to bring him back in two years to be raised in the monastery
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: 62-63.