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Syrian monks were particularly ingenious in devising torments.

The first monks to occupy the monastery may have been Melkites, but they were followed by Egyptian and Syrian monks.

According to legend, Syrian monks crossed the Red Sea then and converted the Aksumite king, Ezana, from paganism to Christianity.

Syrian monks on the other hand, based their purpose and practice on apostolic precedent; and more accurately, the life and teachings of Christ and his disciples.

The martyrs St. Stephen and St. James enter first, together with four ancient Syrian monks and three nuns.

A Syrian monk visiting China a few decades later described many churches in ruin.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church was founded in the 4th century by Syrian monks.

It then followed that Syrian monks began to occupy the monastery, and helped in the rebuilding of the monastery at the beginning of the 16th century.

The writings of Evagrius were important to the current mystical revival among Greek and Syrian monks.

This did not correct the practice entirely, for St. Jerome arraigns Syrian monks for living in cities with Christian virgins.