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Mar Saba seen from the air Tomb of Saint Sabbas. The Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas, [Note 1] known in Arabic and Syriac as Mar Saba (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܣܒܐ, Arabic: دير مار سابا; Hebrew: מנזר מר סבא; Greek: Ἱερὰ Λαύρα τοῦ Ὁσίου Σάββα τοῦ Ἡγιασμένου) and historically as the Great Laura of Saint Sabas, [1] is a Greek Orthodox ...
In 1960, Morton Smith announced the discovery of a previously unknown letter with authorship attributed to Clement of Alexandria. [1] Smith stated that while cataloging documents at the ancient monastery of Mar Saba in the summer of 1958, he discovered the text of the letter handwritten into the endpapers of Isaac Vossius' 1646 printed edition of the works of Ignatius of Antioch.
It is now known as the monastery of Mar Saba. The church of San Saba in Rome is dedicated to him. The San Saba River in Texas , and other features in the area, are named after Sabbas; it was so called because Juan Antonio Bustillo y Ceballos discovered the river on St. Sabbas's day, 5 December 1732, and named it Río de San Sabá de las Nueces ...
Ancient Mar Saba monastery, founded in the fifth century.. In 1941, Smith, at age 26, was on a trip to the holy land with the Harvard Divinity School. Due to issues relating to the war, he was stuck in Jerusalem, where he made acquaintances with a leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, who gave him a tour of various places, one of which happened to be the Mar Saba monastery.
The Mar Saba Monastery was founded by Saint Sabbas the Sanctified (439–532) [3] and is located east of the town proper. The strongly fortified monastery, established in 484 and expanded over the centuries, stands on the west bank of Wadi en-Nar .
Mar Saba: al-Ubeidiya town, West Bank Monastery of Saints John and George of Choziba: Wadi Qelt, West Bank Monastery of the Temptation [2] Jericho city, West Bank Burqin Church: Burqin town, West Bank St. George's Monastery: al-Khader town, West Bank Gaza Baptist Church: 1950 Gaza city, Gaza Strip Church of Saint Porphyrius [3] 1160 Gaza city ...
Arabic names include وادي الجوز, Wadi el-Joz, 'Valley of the Walnut', but possibly a shortening of "Valley of Josaphat", for the upper segment, near the Temple Mount; and Wadi en-Nar, 'Fire Valley', for the rest of it – with at least the segment at the ancient Mar Saba ('Saint Sabbas') monastery also known in the 19th century as Wadi ...
During a trip to Jordan, Israel, Turkey, and Greece in the summer of 1958 "hunting for collections of manuscripts", [44] Morton Smith also visited the Greek Orthodox monastery of Mar Saba [45] situated between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. [46]