[1] The monastery was founded in the first half of the fourth century AD by Saint Awgin, a monk from El Kulzom, Egypt.

[2] Mor Augin came with seventy of his disciples to preach Christianity in Mardin Province which was controlled by the Sasanian Empire.

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