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Sabas, Saint, 439-532

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Personal name headingSabas, Saint, 439-532
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Variant(s)Sabas-le-Grand, Saint, 439-532
Sabas, of Palestine, Saint, 439-532
Sabas, the Enlightened, Saint, 439-532
Sabbas, the Sanctified, Saint, 439-532
Sava Osveshtenȳī, Saint, 439-532
Sava, Osveshtenȳī, Saint, 439-532
Savva, Ōsshtennȳī, Saint, 439-532
Savva Ōsshtennȳī, Saint, 439-532
Savva, Osvi︠a︡shchennyĭ, Saint, 439-532
Savva Osvi︠a︡shchennyĭ, Saint, 439-532
Savva, Saint, 439-532
סבאס, 934־235
Associated countryPalestine
Birth date0439
Death date0532-12-05
Place of birthCappadocia (Turkey)
Profession or occupationMonks
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Found inSabas, leader of Palestinian monasticism, 1994: title page (Sabas)
LC PreMARC file (hdg.: Sabas, Saint, 439-532)
New Catholic encyclopedia/ Second edition, 2003: volume 12, pages 451-452 (Sabas of Palestine, monastic founder; saint; born Cappadocia, 439; died Palestine, December 5, 532; born at Mutalaska in Cappadocia in 439, died December 5, 532. He came to Jerusalem in 456 and founded in 483 the laura (monastic community) of Mar Saba south-east of Jerusalem. He was appointed an archimandrite of Palestine in 494. The Typikon of St. Sabas, in its present state at least, dates only from the twelfth or thirteenth century. His feast day is December 5)
Biographical dictionary of the Saints, 1924: page 876 (Sabas, abbot, born at Mutalasca in Cappadocia of noble parents, he fled to Palestine in 456 where he lived as a hermit, and eventually founded his Laura Mar Saba in 483. He was ordained priest in 491 and made archimandrite in Palestine. He opposed both the Monophysites and the Origenists. He died December 5, 532)
Russian Brockhaus: volume 28, page 25 (article under Savva: the name of certain Saints. Savva Osvi︠a︡shchennyĭ, died 532, born in Kappadokīe. Fled to Palestine where he lived as a hermit; and founded a monastery (Lavra) there in 484 which served as a center for Orthodoxy in the east. He wrote a "Bogosluzhebnyĭ ustav" (Tipik) which is known by the name of Īerusalimskīĭ)
LC in OCLC, August 30, 1995 (hdg.: Sabas, Saint, 439-532; usages: St. Sabas the Enlightened (of Jerusalem), Heilige Sabas, Sabas-le-Grand, Savi Osveshtenago)
Zhitīe i podvigi prepodobnagō ott︠s︡a nashegō Savvy Ōsshtennagō, 1864: title page (Savvy Ōsshtennago)
Book of Saints, 1966: page 621 (Sabbas (St) Ab., 439-532. A Cappadocian who fled to Palestine where he lived as a hermit for many years. He was appointed archimandrite over all the Palestinian houses and in that capacity played a prominent part in the campaign against the Eutychian heresy. He is regarded as one of the founders of Eastern Monachism)
English Wikipedia, viewed July 26, 2021 (Sabbas the Sanctified; born 439; died 532; Cappadocian-Syrian monk, priest and saint; lived mainly in the Byzantine province of Palaestina Prima. He was the founder of several convents, most notably the one known as Mar Saba)