SPEAR Factoids about Prayer

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event: Severus wrote a letter to Andrew concerning the holy virgins, free women, and the death of Zosimus. See factoid page

event: Anonymous 3762 engaged in earnest prayer and physically strenuous acts of asceticism. See factoid page

event: Many miracles came about through the prayers and the bones of Zacharias. See factoid page

event: Close to death,the blessed man went into the vestry to pray. After a while,the archimandrite entered to find the man praying on his mat, as if he was asleep. As the Archimandrite spoke,the man gave up his soul to God. See factoid page

event: After much prayer,Mare was led by God to Paul the Anchorite who received him as his student. See factoid page

event: After spending five years with Paul,Mare exceeded his teacher in prayer, asceticism, and moderation. Many criticized Mare for the severity of his practices. See factoid page

event: Cosmo,seeing that the woman was beautiful like a pearl, took her away from the governor's men. Weeping, she asked Cosmo to pray for her. See factoid page

event: Two young men enter the cell of Simeon and are unable to leave or put down the food they have taken until Simeon releases them by prayer. 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: Elijah,Theodore, and their sisters turned their home into a hospice for the needy, practicing asceticism, fasting, praying, reading Scripture just like a monastery. See factoid page

event: Brothers and sisters came from Cappadocia to educate Thomas and his wife in religion. Many followed Thomas in selling their possessions. Thomas devoted himself to an ascetic life. See factoid page

event: Sometime between 513 and 518 , Severus sent a letter to Philoxenus of Mabbug detailing his request to Philoxenus , of Doliche that Romulus , be granted permission to conduct prayers in Antioch . See factoid page

event: Paul, patriarch of Antioch accompanied his service with prayer in all cities in the east and west, and especially in Constantinople. See factoid page

event: Confronting a man possessed by Satan,Habib returned to the monastery in order to pray. God answered Habib's prayer by striking the demon-possessed man with sickness. See factoid page

event: Sometime between 530 and 536, in the month of November,a stranger came to the convent outside of Amida . Dirty and worn out,he stood at vespers and at table without speaking. See factoid page

event: Maro prayed that his time on the column would not be a torment, but a conductor to life. See factoid page

event: Many began to flock to Mare for a blessing, and they were amazed at his prayer and dress. Mare refused to eat anything that was not produced by the labour of his hands. See factoid page

event: Procopius prophesied the death of Theophilus's parents. He and Maria committed themselves to the teaching of Procopius, refusing to consummate their marriage and concealling their secret. See factoid page

event: Habib sent his disciple Z'ura to pray over the demon-possessed man, who then died, his injustices being undone. See factoid page

event: In 542 a great plague his the empire and everyone was in perturbation and doubt and confusion. Mare, in affliction and sorrow, occupied himself to fervant prayer. See factoid page

event: Susan dedicated herself to fasting, praying, and keeping vigil, which after two years, made her the most devout person in the monastery. See factoid page

event: A group of people from Persia approached Habib with two sick women, one demon-possessed, and one who was barren. Both were healed by the holy man, the barren woman concieving a son and bringing him to the monastery for baptism. See factoid page

event: A man who owned a vineyard approached Habib, emploring him to pray that hail would not destroy his crops. Habib ordered the man to confess his sins. He then prayed that the man's crops would be spared by the hail, and it was. See factoid page

event: John of Ephesus visited Sergius in his later years and received a blessing from him as he wept over what he stated was his unworthiness to serve Christ. Sergius continued to receive visitors in his old age, despite his illness. See factoid page

event: For five years the community attracted many into their company, some coming as far as Ingilene. All were impressed by the religious devotion of the community; all who joined them turned from sin, committing their lives to prayer, worship, singing, and monastic devotion. See factoid page

event: When the community was at Mar Mama, a miracle occurred, where those affected by famine were fed by unending bread at the monastery after the fathers had prayed. See factoid page

event: In the convent, the man refused to speak to the brothers, calling himself a stranger, sinner, and son of Adam. See factoid page

event: Andrew made a way for the freewomen to visit the bones of Peter. See factoid page

event: Susan found the cave in the desert near the village of Mendis and went into it without telling anyone. She went without food and water for several days. See factoid page

event: Hala kept silence except when he prayed the psalms and the liturgy and read scripture without interruption and taught his disciples throughout the night. See factoid page

event: Theodora commissioned the refurbishing of the palace of Hormisdas so that Anonymi 3771 could live there as in a monastery, performing acts of prayer and asceticism. See factoid page

event: 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. See factoid page

event: A group of monks prayed over the blessed man and held vigil for ten days. 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: Though Addai remained reclusive, John and one of the brothers discovered where he would be. As the men approached, Addai fled. John returned to the monastery to rest. They met Addai the next day. Perceiving that Addai wanted his privacy, John stopped pestering him, but simply asked for a blessing and a prayer. See factoid page

event: Before taking small bites of food or small sips of drink, the poor man would recite silent prayers. See factoid page

event: Zeʿora engaged in affective prayer. See factoid page

event: Whenever a stranger came to Simeon's door, he would demonstrate great hospitality and feast with his guest as if he were Christ. However, when he was not in the presence of strangers seeking shelter, he fasted for up to ten days at a time and dedicated his efforts to praying all day and most of the night, rarely sleeping more than two hours a night. See factoid page

event: By the power of Abrahams’s prayers the village was delivered and escaped from that terrible rod of chastisement, a terrible and thick cloud. See factoid page

event: After dinner, the man began to weep. During evening worship, he appeared to sleep on his rug, crying throughout the night. See factoid page

event: Sometime between 513 and 518 , prominent men in Antioch petitioned Severus to allow Romulus to conduct prayers in Antioch even though he was under the authority of Philoxenus , bishop of Doliche . See factoid page

event: The Huns invaded but the monastery was protected and left unharmed because of Maro's prayers. See factoid page

event: A place was made for John in a monastery enclosure, which he dwelt in night and day so that he could pray, weep, and live an ascetic life. See factoid page

event: Sometime between 513 and 518 , Severus sent a letter to Philoxenus , bishop of Doliche requesting that he grant permission to one of his clergymen, Romulus , to conduct prayers in Antioch . See factoid page

event: In his tears and sighs,the blessed man prophecied that he would die in three days. While on his deathbed, he shared with the brothers that he had been thirty-nine years since he had taken his monastic vows, asking for their prayers and blessings. See factoid page

event: The old man continuously asked the archimandrite of the Amida convent for a dismissal. Curious, John asks the man about his eating, sleeping, and prayer habits. He eats and prays the way he does out of recognition of human sinfulness. See factoid page

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“Keyword Page for Prayer,” in SPEAR: Syriac Persons Events and Relations, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, $nav-base/aggregate/keyword/prayer.html, 2023-03-23T12:33:36.837-04:00.

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