JOHN KAMA, SAINT (feast day: 25 Kiyahk). The ninth-century John
Kama was born in the village of Jebromonnonson in the nome of
Sais, in the Delta. This village name has not survived, but it
could be identical with Shubra Wasim in the markaz (district) of
Kom Hamadah in the modern province of Beheirah. He is said to
have been very pious in his youth and to have contracted an
unsoiled marriage, having persuaded the spouse chosen for him
not to consummate the matrimonial union. Guided by an angel, he
went to SCETIS, where he became the disciple of a certain Apa
Teroti, a name not unknown in Coptic literature, who lived in a
hermitage dependent on DAYR ABU MAQAR. Teroti assigned him a
habitation and taught him the rules concerning the divine
office. After a certain time spent under the jurisdiction of
Teroti, he was moved by a vision and arrived at the monastery of
JOHN COLOBOS (the Small). An angel ordered him at the same time
to found a new monastery, to which his name would remain
attached. The Virgin Mary is s