He was also alive in what has been called the worst year in history, 536.

Life

Born at the city of Amida (modern Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey) about 507, he was there ordained as a deacon in 529 by John of Tella at Zuqnin Monastery, When John was a teenager, he moved to Amida, located on the Tigris River. Amida was in the province

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