Event Factoid: Thomas gave
his keys to The bishop's
cellarer and snuck out of his monastery at night to go to
the pit, where he lived an ascetic life of prayer and fasting.
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: 192-193.