Monastery of Saint John of Dailam, also known as Naqortaya and Muqurtaya (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܢܩܘܪܬܝܐ, romanized: dayrā naqortāyā, lit. 'chiseled monastery')...

Saint John of Dailam (Syriac: ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܝܠܡܝܐ Yoḥannan Daylamáyá), was a 7th-century East Syriac Christian saint and monk, who founded several monasteries...

homes and churches. The Kurds then occupied the Monastery of Saint John of Dailam and killed many of its nuns and those who had sought refuge there. In...

530 by John bar Aphtonia, abbot of the monastery of Saint Thomas near Seleucia Pieria, who led some monks away to found a new house in the face of the anti-miaphysite...

missionary expansion of the Church of the East. He is known to have consecrated metropolitans for Damascus, for Armenia, for Dailam and Gilan in Azerbaijan...

of the Franks 738 January 26 – John of Dailam, Syrian monk (b. 660) May 3 – Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil, Mayan ruler (ajaw) Áed mac Colggen, king of the...

City). Ahsusjuseshsshs 660 Acca, bishop of Hexham (approximate date) Genmei, empress of Japan (d. 721) John of Dailam, Syrian monk (d. 738) Leudwinus, Frankish...