Monastery of Saint Theodosius

The Monastery of St. Theodosius, Deir Dosi and Deir Ibn Ubeid in Arabic,[1] is the monastery founded around 476 by Saint Theodosius the Cenobiarch and contains his tomb. It is located east of the village of al-Ubeidiya, some 8 kilometres east of Bethlehem, on the road towards Mar Saba (St Sabbas) Monastery, on the West Bank, Palestine.

Monastery of St. Theodosius
Monastery of St. Theodosius
Religion
Affiliation	Greek Orthodox Church
Location
Location	al-Ubeidiya, West Bank, Palestine
Palestine grid	1768/1254
Geographic coordinates	31°43′16″N 35°16′58″E

Significance

The three Magi

A cave on the monastery grounds is, according to tradition, the place where the three Magi took shelter during the first night after delivering their gifts to the newborn Baby Jesus, after an angel had appeared to them and ordered them to return home without reporting Jesus' location to King Herod. This Cave of the Magi is called Metopa in Greek.[2]

Tombs of saints

The cave was used during the Byzantine period as a cemetery. Important monastic figures of Palestine buried here include several saints, such as John Moschus, buried here by Sophronius of Jerusalem; Saint Sophia, the mother of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified; Saint Theodota, the mother of the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, etc.[3]

References

1. "St. Theodosius' Monastery - Carta Jerusalem". carta-jerusalem.com. 15 May 2012.
2. "Saint Theodosius of Palestine - Asian saint". britannica.com.
3. The Holy Monastery of Saint Theodosius the Cenobiarch, Jerusalem Patriarchate – Website, retrieved 3 July 2018

Bibliography

• Marti, K.; Schick, C. (1880). "Mitteilungen von Bauart C. Schick in Jerusalem über die alten Lauren und Klöster in der Wüste Juda". Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins. 3: 1–43. (Marti and Schick, 1880, pp. 34-37)
• Pringle, Denys (1998). The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: L-Z (excluding Tyre). II. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 521 39037 0. (pp. 271-278)
• Schick, Conrad (1899). "Reports by Dr. Conrad Schick". Quarterly statement - Palestine Exploration Fund. 31: 36-37.

External links

• Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem: The Holy Monastery of Saint Theodosius the Cenobiarch (the saint's vita and the story of his monastery)
• AtlasTours.net: St. Theodosius Monastery, Bethlehem
• The Official Website for Tourism in Palestine: St. Theodosius Monastery
• EWTN Global Catholic Network (Eternal Word Television Network, Irondale, Alabama): St Theodosius, the Cenobiarch (A.D. 529)