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Joannes (504), Abbat of Mt. Sinai
Wace's Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
or Joannes (504), surnamed Climacus, Scholasticus, or Sinaita. At the age of 16 he entered the monastery of Mount Sinai, subsequently became an anchoret, and at 75 abbat of Mount. Sinai. At the entreaty of John abbat of Raïthu he now composed his works, the Scala Paradisi and the Liber ad Pastorem; from the title ( κλῖμαξ ) of the first of these he gained his name of Climacus (Climakos). It contains his experiences in the spiritual life, with instructions for the attainment of a higher degree of holiness, and is dedicated to the abbat of Raïthu who afterwards wrote a commentary upon it (Patr. Gk. lxxxviii.1211–1248). Returning into solitude, John died at an advanced age early in the 7th cent. Boll: Acta SS. Mart. iii. 834: Migne, u.s. 631–1210; a new ed. of the Gk. text of his works was pub. in 1883 at Constantinople by Sophronius Eremites; Surius, de Probatis Sanct. Historiis, Mar 30.
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Wace, Henry. Entry for 'Joannes (504), Abbat of Mt. Sinai'. A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hwd/j/joannes-504-abbat-of-mt-sinai.html. 1911.
