SPEAR Factoids about Families

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event: Severus of Antioch wrote a letter to the monastery of Mar Bassus urging them to remove a monk from their monastery who unlawfully abandoned his wife and children when he entered the monastery. See factoid page

event: Isaac of Dara 's wife came to Constantinople to look for him. He sent her a message to ask her to come back in two months. See factoid page

event: Mary's family attempted to dissuade her from pursuing an ascetic life. See factoid page

event: While staying with Paul,Mare was tired of being pestered by his family, so he left Syria and journeyed to Egypt and Thebais, where he went to and fro in the desert with the saints, observing the prayer practices of monks and solitaries. See factoid page

event: Between 519 and 538, Severus sent a letter to Georgia, daughter of Anastasia expressing the merits of coming to marriage as an adult. See factoid page

event: Mary was bethrothed to a certain rich man around the time she commenced an ascetic life. See factoid page

event: Anastasia and her husband were ashamed that their daughter had not yet been married. See factoid page

event: Mary rejected the marriage arranged by her parents and entered a monastery. See factoid page

event: Euphemia took a husband and had one daughter, who was trained in religion. See factoid page

event: Susan changed her name so that she would remain hidden from her parents who were searching for her. See factoid page

event: Thomas and Maria and their sons committed themselves to a diet of only fruit and some grain, tasting bread and wine only when absolutely necessary. See factoid page

event: When Mare was thirty, he went against his family's wish for him to marry by committing himself to the Lord. See factoid page

event: Abraham was from Amida and had a residence there. His mother, brothers, and kinsmen lived in Amida. See factoid page

How to cite:

“Keyword Page for Families,” in SPEAR: Syriac Persons Events and Relations, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, $nav-base/aggregate/keyword/families.html, 2023-03-23T12:35:28.669-04:00.

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