Rabulas of Samosata

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Saint Rabulas of Samosata
Born~450 AD
Samosata
(modern-day Samsat, Adıyaman, Turkey)
Died530 AD
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast 19 February

Saint Rabulas (or Rabula) of Samosata (died 530 AD [1] ) was a monk and ascetic. A native of Samosata, [1] and was educated there by a man named Baripsaba. [2] [3] He learned the Syriac language. [2] Rabulas became an ascetic in the deserts and mountains, and then traveled to the Levant. [1] [3]

The Emperor Zeno provided Rabulas with funds to build a monastery in the middle of the mountains (the location of which has not been identified [2] ), the construction of which was supervised by Bishop John of Berytus. [1] [2] [3] Rabulas’ monastery became a center for converting local peoples to Christianity. [1] [3] Rabulas then went to Constantinople, where the Emperor Anastasius I Dicorus supported the ascetic financially. Rabulas built more monasteries with these funds. [1] [3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "St Rabulas of Samosata". Orthodox Church in America. 2009. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Linda Jones Hall, Roman Berytus: Beirut in Late Antiquity (Routledge, 2013), 166.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Fr. S. Janos (1996–2001). "The Monk Rabula". Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
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