Date: 0542Event Factoid: In 542
a great plague hit the empire and everyone was in perturbation and doubt and confusion.
Mare, in
affliction and sorrow, occupied himself to fervant prayer.
Sources:
E. W Brooks, trans.,Lives of the Eastern Saints II,Patrologia Orientalis 18.4 (1924), https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaorient18pariuoft#page/n521/mode/2up, p: 640.