Event Factoid: When the old
man came to the convent, the leaders wanted to give him a place of
honor. Instead, he chose to sit at the lowest table, refusing even to
bless the food.
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: 251.