Bir el-Wa'ar - NEA LAURA

Paragraph: 
I, 31-32
Translation: 

(31) <Conon, a leader of the Tritheite heresy, is imprisoned, but refuses to sign a written recantation, as Emperor Justin II requires.> So, since Photius, Belisarius’ stepson, had then arrived at Constantinople, Conon was entrusted to him, as a heretic and blasphemer. (Photius) took Conon with him to Palestine and shut him away in a monastery that is called “New (monastery)”: he stayed there for three years, then was released and went to Cilicia.

(32) <Photius was once a professional soldier, then he received the monastic habit, but never changed his way of life. Justin II sent him to Palestine as a special envoy, to quell a Samaritan revolt; but he used his position to extort money from all, even from bishops and high officials: the money he sent to the Emperor. He held special powers, above the provincial governors, and answered directly to the Emperor; for his actions he used a mixed force of guardsmen, imperial and local troups, and monks. Photius’ violent activities in Palestine lasted 13 years, until his death>. He was succeeded by another archimandrite of the monastery called “New”, that is in Jerusalem, whose name was Abraham.

(transl. Leah Di Segni)
Summary: 
By order of Justin II, the heretic Conon is entrusted to Photius the archimandrite of the New Laura, AD 570s.