Event Factoid

https://spear-prosop.org/800-5
Date: Not before 0456Event Factoid: Five years after the Council of Chalcedon, when the monastery at Fardaisa was brought to indigence, the brothers approached Addai in his exile. To recover financially, they began planting vineyards throughout the mountains east of Anzetene. Merchants from Cappadocia, who would go as far Syria to buy wine. Selling wine allowed Addai to begin feeding the poor again.

Sources:

  • Jean de Ephèse, "Lives of the Eastern Saints I." Patrologia Orientalis vol. 17.1 (1923)., p: 130.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic recordLink to Archive.org Bibliographic record

How to cite:

Samuel Young, https://spear-prosop.org/800-5, in The Lives of the Eastern Saints, edited by Daniel L. Schwartz, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, 2023-10-09-04:00.