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- Our righteous Fathers martyred at the Monastery of St Sabbas the Sanctified (633? 796?)
- The holy Monastery of St Sabbas is still in existence today, by the
providence of God, though several times in its history it has been
plundered and left empty. At one time it was attacked by Arab raiders.
The monks considered fleeing, but their abbot, Thomas, said, 'We have
fled from the world into this wilderness for the love of Christ; it
would be shameful for us now to flee from the wilderness for fear of
men. If we are killed here, we shall be killed through love for Christ,
for whose sake we have come here to live.' So the monks agreed with
one mind to wait their attackers unarmed. The Arabs killed some with
arrows, and shut some in the cave of St Sabbas, lighting a fire at the
entrance to suffocate them with smoke. The whole company of monks were
thus privileged to give their lives for Christ's sake.
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Accounts of the date differ substantially: the Great Horologion says that they died during the reign of the Emperor Heraclius, when St Modestus was Patriarch of Jerusalem (632-634); the Prologue that they died in 796 during the reign of Constantine and Irene, when Elias was Patriarch of Jerusalem.
source: http://www.abbamoses.com
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