[1] One day, at the age of about forty, as he was travelling with some monks to Antioch, they were invited by the villagers of Kakhushta to celebrate the feast of Saint George there.
[1][3] His reputation as a holy man began to attract disciples so that by the time he died there was a monastic community around his hermitage.
[3] While Robert Hoyland opts for the death date and rejects the caliphal miracle as an embellishment,[3] John Lamoreaux, who edited the text, trusts the references to Harun and the Patriarch Theodoret of Antioch and places Timothy's death in the early ninth century.
[4] The Life of the Holy and Virtuous Ascetic Timothy (Arabic: سيرة القديس الفاضل الناسك تماثيوس, romanized: Sīrat al-qiddīs al-fāḍil al-nāsik Tīmāthayūs), called the Life of Timothy of Kakhushta for short, is an anonymous saint's biography originally written in Arabic but surviving in several languages and recensions.
It says that Timothy went to Jerusalem to avoid marrying his foster-parents' daughter and that he remained in the Judaean Desert for 27 years.
[6] There are a total of four complete or partial Arabic manuscript copies, including two from Our Lady of Saidnaya Monastery, one undated and the other made in 1396.