Chronicle of Edessa

In the year 62, a synod was held in Chalcedon.

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LXVII. In the year 763, Mar Isaac the Scribe and Archimandrite became known.

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LXVIII. In the year 769, on the twenty-eighth of Tishrin I October, Ibas, Bishop of Edessa, rested. And Nonnus returned to his place. And he built the temple of Saint John the Baptist, and a hospital for the poor and infirm outside the Beth-Shemesh gate. And he built in that same hospital a temple of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Furthermore, he erected monasteries, towers, and bridges, and he leveled the roads.

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LXIX. In the year 771, the blessed Mar Simeon the Stylite departed from this world on the second of Elul September, on the fourth day of the week, at the eleventh hour.

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LXX. In the year 777, Leo built the city of Callinicum and called its name Leontopolis. He also established a bishop in it.

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LXXI. In the year 782, Nonnus, Bishop of Edessa, rested, and Cyrus was substituted in his place.

LXXII. In the year 790.

...in the year 62, a synod was held in the city of Chalcedon.

LXVII. In the year 763, Mar Isaac 1 the Scribe and Archimandrite became known.

LXVIII. In the year 769, on the 28th of October, Ibas, Bishop of Edessa, rested; and Nonnus, 2 having returned to his place, built the Temple of Saint John the Baptist, and a hospital for the poor and infirm outside the Beth-Shemesh gate. He also built in the same hospital a Temple of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Furthermore, he raised up monasteries and towers; and he also made bridges and leveled the roads.

LXIX. In the year 771, the Blessed Simeon 3 Stylites departed from this world on the 2nd of September, on the fourth day of the week, at the eleventh hour.

LXX. In the year 777, Leo built Callinicum 4 in Osrhoene, which he called Leontopolis after his own name: he also appointed a bishop in it.

LXXI. In the year 782, Nonnus, Bishop of Edessa, died, to whom Cyrus 5 was substituted.

LXXII. In the year 790.

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NOTES.

1 Isaac. See page 207.
2 Nonnus. About whom above, page 257.
3 Simeon Stylites. The 2nd of September fell on the fourth day of the week not in the year of the Greeks 771, but in the year 770; for this year corresponds to the year of Christ 459, in which the Dominical letter was D. Since, therefore, it is certain from Cosmas, the writer of the Life of Saint Simeon, that the most holy Stylite migrated to the heavens in the year of Christ 459, as we showed on page 252, and the day of the month and week marked by our Author indicate this, it seems that our Author set down the year of the Greeks 771, begun from the Calends of September, for the year 770, which was still in course according to the Syrians, following some author who followed the Antiochene computation.
4 Callinicum. See page 258.
5 Cyrus. See in the Notes to page 353.