Event Factoid
https://spear-prosop.org/805-60Event Factoid: Thomas,
endeavored to live as an ascetic in the pit near the village of
Mendis,
but everyone who heard of his plans laughed at him because he had such a
privileged upbringing. He was a patrician who had his own estate and
slaves and he was the descendent of the great patrician, Ishakuni Bar Brʿy.
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: 191-192.
