[2] The hagiography of Saint Matthew the Hermit attests that he had been a monk at the monastery, by which point it had become known for its library and teachers, some time prior to the persecutions of the Roman Emperor Julian (r. 361–363).
[4] In John of Ephesus' Lives of the Eastern Saints, it is recorded that the monastery was gifted with half of the village of Nardo in Ingilene by the prior of the nearby Monastery of Mar Yoḥannan Urṭaya after having been endowed with the village by imperial decree, likely by Emperor Zeno, in the latter part of the fifth century.
[7] According to the Ecclesiastical History of Bar Hebraeus, the Patriarch Iwannis I (r. 739/740–754/755) had been a monk at the Zuqnīn Monastery.
[9] The Zuqnin Chronicle was written by a monk at the Zuqnīn Monastery during the reign of Caliph al-Mansur (r. 754–775).
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