Agathe 1 was the wife of Ploutinos 2, mother of Joseph the Hymnographer (Ioseph 12); the family lived in Sicily, in one of the famous cities there (the sources do not specify which); both parents are described as devout and pious Christians, giving away whatever they did not need in charity to the poor: Theophanes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 2, Ioannes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 941D-944A, cf. Synax. Eccl. Const., 3 April, 581, 21-24 (ἐκ τῆς Σικελῶν ἐπαρχίας γεννητόρων Πλωτίνου καὶ Ἀγάθης), 581/2, 33-5 (mother of Ioseph 12). Ioseph 12 was not the only child they had, but nothing is known about the others: Theophanes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 2 (Ioseph 12 left Sicily σὺν τοῖς τέκουσι καὶ ἀδελφοῖς). Following attacks on Sicily by Arab forces, his parents took Ioseph 12 and their other children (see above) and left with other refugees to live in the Peloponnesos: Theophanes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 2, Ioannes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 944D-945A. Ioseph 12 was born in the early ninth century, between 807 and 816.

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