Anonymus 284 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E IX |
Religion | Christian; Iconoclast |
Locations | Decapolis (Isauria) (residence); Decapolis (Isauria) |
Occupation | Hegoumenos; Monk |
Titles | Hegoumenos, unknown (Decapolis in Isauria) (office) |
Textual Sources | Vita Gregorii Decapolitae, by Ignatius the Deacon,ed. F. Dvornik, La Vie de Saint Grégoire le Décapolite et les Slaves macédoniens au IXe siècle (Paris, 1926), pp. 45-75 (hagiography) |
Anonymus 284 was hegoumenos of the monastery in the Decapolis in Isauria in which Gregory the Decapolite (Gregorios 79) first became a monk; he was an associate of iconoclasts, whose views he shared, and for this he was loudly and publicly denounced by Gregorios 79 before the assembled monks; Anonymus 284 then had Gregorios 79 well flogged and disgraced: Ignatius, Vita Greg. Dec. 4.
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