The Serbs were forced to sell the monastery to the Patriarch of Jerusalem to pay off their debts.

Significance

|date=November 2024| talk = }| small = }}}The monastery, considered among the oldest continuously inhabited in the Christian world, has been a place of learning and has exerted an essential influence in doctrinal developments in the Byzantine Church. Important personalities in this regard included Sabbas himself, John of Damascus (676-749), and the brothers Theodorus and Theophanes

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