Anonyma 43

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexF
FloruitL IX
Textual SourcesVita Ignatii Patriarchae, by Nicetas (BHG 817), PG 105.488-574) (hagiography)

Anonyma 43 was a married lady (γυνή τις ἀνδρὶ νομίμως συνοικοῦσα) with three children (Anonymi 13) (παίδων μήτηρ γεγονυῖα τριῶν) (apparently triplets, since she was "recently delivered" - ἀρτιτόκῳ - and the children were all still very young; see below); they had to be fed by wet-nurses because the mother's own milk had dried up; her attendants obtained holy oil from the hair of the patriarch Ignatios 1 (it is not clear if he was alive or dead) and gave it to her to drink, after which she produced milk in abundance; the same miracle is said to have occurred also to another woman who had the same problem: Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 561C-D. The date was probably after Ignatios 1's death, in 877, though this is not certain.

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