St. Stephen the Sabaite

J. M. Neale's headnote says S. Stephen the Sabaite, so called from the monastery of S. Sabas, was the nephew of S. John Damascene, who placed him in that house at the age of ten. He spent fifty-nine years there and was the earliest of the hymnographers to live to see the final restoration of Icons; the Eastern Church commemorates him on 13 July. Neale's heading gives his years as 725 to 799.

Neale says he left few poetical compositions, the best being those on the Martyrs of the monastery of S. Sabas and on the Circumcision, and that his style seems formed on that of S. Cosmas rather than his uncle's. This file gives Neale's 1862 version of the idiomela for the week of the First Oblique Tone, which begins 'Art thou weary, art thou languid'.