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Saint Stephen the Sabaite (725–796) was a Christian monk from Julis a district of Gaza. He was a nephew of St. John of Damascus and spent a half-century in the monastery of Mar Saba.Towards the end of his life Stephen then living in Palestine reported that various cities Gaza among them were laid waste to and depopulated by the Saracens (another name for the Muslim Caliphate under the rule of the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties referenced in Acta martyrum Sabaitarum AASS Mart. III p.