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xenodochium or
xenodochion (from
Ancient Gr**** ξενοδοχεῖον, xenodokheîon or
xenodocheion;
place for strangers, inn, guesthouse) was
either a
hostel or hospital...
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residence of the hegoumenos, or abbot.
Excavations suggest that the
great xenodocheion, a
reception area for pilgrims, may
originally have been a cemetery....
- each
divided into 4
sections second half of 6th
century building of
xenodocheions/bimārestāns by the
Nestorians under the Sasanians,
would evolve into...
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mentioned by
Theodore of
Stoudios in one of his letters, as the site of a
xenodocheion (caravanserai). By the late 11th century, it
featured a
market town....
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number of terms;
Basil himself called it a
ptochotropheion (poorhouse), a
xenodocheion (hostel) and a
katagogion (rest house). The
complex must have been extensive...
- ho****e as a ptochotrophius, a late
antique borrowing from Gr****, like
xenodocheion. It
literally means "nourisher of the poor", i.e. "poorhouse". Life,...
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Judean hills east of Jerusalem.
Martyrius reposed on
April 13, 486. The
xenodocheion (pilgrim hostelry) was a
source of
considerable income to the Sabaite...
