[10] In 969, at the invitation of the Roman Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas, a significant number of Syriac Orthodox Christians resettled Malatya and its hinterland,[11] and the patriarch John VII Sarigta (r. 965–985) transferred his residence to the nearby Monastery of Bārid.

[14] As a consequence, it produced several subsequent patriarchs, namely Basil II (r. 1074–1075), Dionysius V Lazarus (r. 1077–1078/1079), and Athanasius VI bar Khamoro (r. 1091–1129), who had all previously been monks there.

[20] Towards the middle of the 12th century, many Syriac Orthodox Christians took refuge in the principality of Antioch, driven by the fall of Edessa as well as the sack of the monastery.

[21] This spread the veneration of Mōr-Barṣawmō amongst the population of Antioch and resulted in the building of a church dedicated to the saint in 1156, sponsored by a Frankish couple, and a monk of the Mor Bar Sauma Monastery, Saliba, became its first prior.

[26] Although it was seriously damaged by fire in 1183, Michael used the monastery to host several synods throughout his patriarchate and expanded the library's collection of manuscripts.

[29] The monastery seemed to have served as the regular residence of Philoxenus I Nemrud (r. 1283–1292) despite suffering severe damage in an earthquake in 1284/1285 and was used for the consecration of Barṣawmo Ṣafī as maphrian in 1288.

[2] The monastery was identified with the archaeological site known as Borsun Kalesi situated around a 1600m peak at the south-western end of the Kaplı Dağı in the upper valley of the Kâhta Çayı, between Malatya and Adıyaman in Turkey, by Ernst Honigmann.