Event Factoid: John of Ephesus convinced Harfat
that he did not need to wear chains as an act of penitence. He removed them and instead
committed himself to double labors,
a practice he continued until his death seven years later.
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: 166.