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SABAS, ST (439-531)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 958 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
SABAS, ST (439-531) , a Palestinian monk, born near Caesarea of Cappadocia. Becoming a monk in his childhood, he
went to Jerusalem and lived as a hermit. After a time he established the "
Great
  Laura " monastery in the neighbourhood of the Dead Sea, and later on the " New Laura," under St' Basil's
Rule
 . In the Lauras the
young
  monks lived a cenobitical life, but the elders a semi-eremitical one, each in his own hut within the precincts of the Laura, attending only the solemn
church
  services. Sabas was made exa:ch or superior of all the monasteries in Palestine, and composed a Typicon or
Rule
  for their guidance. He took a prominent part, on the orthodox side, in the Monophysite and Origenistic controversies. His Laura
long
  continued to be the most influential monastery in those parts, and produced several distinguished monks, among them St John of Damascus. It is now known as the monastery of Mar Saba. He is commemorated on the 5th of December.
Another saint of this name, surnamed " the Goth," suffered martyrdom at the hands of Athanaric the Visigoth in the reign of Valentinian, and he is commemorated on the 12th of April inthe Roman Martyrology, on varying days from 12th to 18th in the Greek Menologies.
Sabas's Life was written by his disciple Cyril of Scythopolis. The
chief
  modern authority is A. Ehrhard in W. tzer u. Welte's Kirchenlexikon (ed. 2) and Romische Quartalschnft, vii.; see also
Helyot
 , Histoire des ordres religioux (1714), i. C. 16, and Max Heimbucher, Orden u. Kongregationen (1907), i, Io. (E. C. B.)


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