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A Christian monastic order requiring castration (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Eunuch devotees (kurgarru/gallos) 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.02 Cult of Ištar 03.02.02 Devotees of Ištar 03.02.02.02 Eunuch devotees (kurgarru/gallos) Self-castration 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.02 Cult of Ištar 03.02.04 Transsexuality/androgyny 03.02.04.01 Self-castration	Keywords eunuchs
Period 4th century CE Roman Empire	Channel Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
Epiphanius of Salamis, Adversus Haereses 2.1:
I often hear of Valens. He was an Arab, and though I don’t know anything definite, I have considerable suspicion that his sect still lives on to this day in Bakathi in the region of Philadelphia on the other side of the Jordan river. … They were members of the church until that time when their insanity came to its fullness and they were excommunicated. For they are all castrated …

Source (list of abbreviations)
Epiphanius of Salamis, Adversus Haereses 2.1

Bibliography

Stevenson 2002, 129

Stevenson, Walter. “Eunuchs and early Christianity.” In: Shaun Tougher (ed.). Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, London: Duckworth 2002, 123-142.

Amar Annus

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