Name
Ioannes/John the monk, ascetic from Rome
Saint ID
S01944
Reported Death Not Before
350
Reported Death Not After
600
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns
| ID | Title | E05120 | Coptic Life of *John, the monk (ascetic from Rome, S01944), relating his escape as a young man from his rich home in Rome to join a monastery where he was torturing and destroying his body through severe asceticism, returning to Rome years later to live as a beggar at the gateway of his parents’ house. When he died they built him a shrine (martyrion) at that spot; written most likely during the 6th century. |
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