Event Factoid: Mare and his
men found an old man who sold utensils for a living in the village of
Mendis.
He lived in a community of other religious exiles. Stephen and
Thomas
asked the man to lead them to the exiles.
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: 190-191.