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ST SABAS (439-531)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 958 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SABAS (439-531)  , a Palestinian See also:monk, See also:born near Caesarea of See also:Cappadocia . Becoming a monk in his childhood, he went to See also:Jerusalem and lived as a See also:hermit . After a See also:time he established the " See also:Great Laura " monastery in the neighbourhood of the Dead See also:Sea, and later on the " New Laura," under St' See also:Basil's See also:Rule . In the Lauras the See also:young monks lived a cenobitical See also:life, but the elders a semi-eremitical one, each in his own hut within the precincts of the Laura, attending only the See also:solemn See also:church services . See also:Sabas was made exa:ch or See also:superior of all the monasteries in See also:Palestine, and composed a Typicon or Rule for their guidance . He took a prominent See also:part, on the orthodox See also:side, in the Monophysite and Origenistic controversies . His Laura See also:long continued to be the most influential monastery in those parts, and produced several distinguished monks, among them St See also:John of See also:Damascus . It is now known as the monastery of See also:Mar Saba . He is commemorated on the 5th of See also:December . Another See also:saint of this name, surnamed " the Goth," suffered martyrdom at the hands of See also:Athanaric the Visigoth in the reign of Valentinian, and he is commemorated on the 12th of See also:April inthe See also:Roman See also:Martyrology, on varying days from 12th to 18th in the See also:Greek Menologies . Sabas's Life was written by his See also:disciple See also:Cyril of Scythopolis . The See also:chief See also:modern authority is A .

Ehrhard in W. tzer u . Welte's Kirchenlexikon (ed . 2) and Romische Quartalschnft, vii.; see also See also:

Helyot, Histoire See also:des ordres religioux (1714), i . C . 16, and Max Heimbucher, Orden u . Kongregationen (1907), i, § Io . (E . C .

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