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Joshua the Stylite
Iranian historian
SaintPre-congregation
Born
500
Died
600
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Joshua the Stylite (also spelled Yeshu Stylite and Ieshu Stylite) is the attributed author of a chronicle which narrates the history of the war between the Byzantine Empire and Persians between 502 and 506, and which is generally considered to be one of the earliest and most reliable historical documents to be preserved in Syriac.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Wikidata Q941902 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Joshua the Stylite (CC BY-SA)
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